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Answer for the clue "Dark patch on a distant sun ", 8 letters:
starspot

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n. (context astronomy English) The equivalent of a sunspot on another star.

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Starspots are a stellar phenomena . On the Sun, they are called Sunspots . Spots the size of sunspots are very hard to detect on other stars because they are too small to cause detectable fluctuations in brightness. Observed starspots are in general much ...

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Perhaps some obscure component, a chip or a bit of wiring somewhere inside him, was reacting to static electricity built up in the cold air or to sunspotsor starspots, if that was the word, since Dest's primary was not Old Earth's sun.