by bystander » Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:02 pm
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Big Sunspot, Big Effects
This is the sunspot region AR 1429) that generated several major solar storms recently. The video covers nine days (Mar. 4 - 12, 2011). Notice how the spot is almost always changing as its magnetic fields realign themselves. The images are white light images called intensitygrams.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/HMI
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[i]This is the sunspot region AR 1429) that generated several major solar storms recently. The video covers nine days (Mar. 4 - 12, 2011). Notice how the spot is almost always changing as its magnetic fields realign themselves. The images are white light images called intensitygrams.
[b]Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/HMI[/b][/i]
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