Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?
Thursday, June 18, 2009 - 13:21
in Astronomy & Space
The sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now, for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.
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