... for the past couple of years, producing no sunspots and giving a break to satellites. That's good news ... . Solar activity refers to phenomena like sunspots, solar flares and solar eruptions. Together ...
Good reason to keep an eye on changes to Earth's magnetic field over the coming few years as the sun begins its next 11 year cycle of sunspot activity.
Scientists are not sure why sunspot activity is so minimal, and the episode is even playing into the global warming debate.
... that scientists study. Active regions, anchored in sunspots, are areas of the sun where the concentrated magnetic ...
... ) -- The sun has been unusually quiet lately, with fewer sunspots and weaker magnetic fields than in nearly a century ...
... . It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild ...
... will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. Led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
... the convective flow and movement of energy that underlie the sunspots, and which are not directly detectable by instruments. The models suggest ... conclude that there is a unified physical explanation for the structure of sunspots in umbra and penumbra that's the consequence of convection in a magnetic ...
... is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now ... is migrating slower than usual through the star's interior, giving rise to the current lack of sunspots ...
A 3-D sunspot debuts, the clock keeps ticking for the latest space shuttle launch, a couple ties the knot while weightless, and more in this week's best space pictures.
... observations and image processing to finally solve a sunspot puzzle first noticed in the 18th Century ...
An international team details how the 11-year sunspot cycle might influence the amount of rain falling across the Pacific.
... months go by without even a single tiny sunspot. The quiet has prompted some observers to wonder ...
Sunspots have fascinated sky gazers through the ages. Now state-of-the art telescopes combined ...
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found using just sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the sun's impact on Earth during the 11-year solar cycle.
