Tag: sunspots

Are Sunspots And Flares A Product Of A Shallow Magnetic Field?

MessageToEagle.com | May 23, 2024

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Researchers at MIT, the University of Edinburgh, and elsewhere find that the sun’s magnetic field could arise from instabilities within the sun’s

A new study has identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the period from the mid 1600s to the early 1700s when our sun paused its sunspot cycles. This image depicts a typical 11-year cycle on the sun, with the fewest sunspots appearing at its minimum (top left and top right) and the most appearing at its maximum (center). Credit: NASA

Astronomy

Nearby Star Could Explain Why Our Sun Didn’t Have Sunspots For 70 Years

MessageToEagle.com | March 25, 2022

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when

On This Day In History

On This Day In History: Sunspot Observed By Chinese Astronomers During The Han Dynasty – On May 10, 28 BC

MessageToEagle.com | May 10, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – On 10th May, 28 BC, a sunspot was observed by astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of of theWestern Han Dynasty. China is among the earliest