Sentences with phrase «new sunspot»
The phrase "new sunspot" refers to a dark region that forms on the surface of the sun. It appears as a small dot and usually signifies increased activity on the sun's surface. Sunspots are cooler than the rest of the sun and can cause solar flares and other space weather events. Full definition
If the trend continues, the fields may be too weak to birth new sunspots for the following cycle in 2022, they say.
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But now new sunspots are moving into view, and a new solar cycle seems to have dawned this past December, which NOAA and other experts expect to be one of the weaker cycles since the 1750s.
Instead, it entered an unexpectedly long lull in activity with few new sunspots.
A new sunspot collided with an existing sunspot which built up a highly sheared magnetic configuration.
Recent sunspot observations, which clearly show solar activity has been picking up, and that we are now en route to a new sunspot maximum.
Hundreds of lines of codes are adapted for the new sunspot number series and for the new array of data files.