Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century

Posted by gibsonf1 on Monday September 01, 2008 @09:55AM
from the dailytech.com dept.

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Re:Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century by rbanffy on Monday September 01, 2008 @04:08PM (#292099)

From reading the headline, I imagined something on the lines of a new server... ;-)

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Re:Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century by boredguy8 on Monday September 01, 2008 @03:57PM (#292091)

http://www.southgatearc.org/propagation/2008/august_29.htm is also quite useful for context and trends with the current solar cycle. An exciting time to be looking at the sun, no doubt!

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Re:Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century by Hexstream on Monday September 01, 2008 @04:32PM (#292119)

Is it possible that there are sunspots on the other side of the sun or are they pretty uniformly distributed on the surface?...

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Re:Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century by sarehu on Monday September 01, 2008 @07:10PM (#292207)

The sun's surface rotates with a period of 25 to 35 days, depending on latitude, so I would guess not.

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