NASA releases a rare photo of a 'Spotless Sun' with a 'black fleck', netizens wonder 'what's that?'. Here's the answer

Indians have frequently believed that moon is t spotless white, w re appears to be a freckle on Sun too.

NASA on Tuesday, released a photo of International Station (ISS) caught passing in front of Sun, calling photo captured by Rainee Colacurcio as 'Astromy photo of day'.

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Here is stunning photo:

(Photo: Rainee Colacurcio)

As explained by NASA, ISS which revolves around Earth, every 90 minutes passes between Earth and Sun every day. But getting one's timing and equipment just right for a great im is rare, says NASA commending unique nature of photo which showed that Sun lacked any real sunspots.

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Sunspots and its ramifications:

According to scientists, Sunspots are rarely on sun currently due to Solar Minimum period. Solar Minimum is a 11-year-long solar activity cycle when solar activity at its lowest point. Similarly, scientists have explained that when solar activities are at ir peak, giant eruptions like solar flares and coronal mass eruptions are common.

Astromers study solar activity in an attempt to forecast solar cycles in order to predict when se eruptions will take place and its magnitude to prevent any kind of dam to any satellites and ISS.

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Netizens have been wowed by 'Spotless Sun':

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