A big new sunspot

 

The Sun appears to be waking up from its minimum state.  There's a big sunspot on the disk right now, capable of making flares and disrupting communications and other things electronic on Earth.

Follow its status on Spaceweather.com.

Here's the total disk on November 27:

And here's a really cool (so to speak) close-up of the sunspot acquired by Francois Rouvier.