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Associated with a strong magnetic field
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sunspot
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n. a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field [syn: macula ]
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n. (context astronomy English) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.
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A sunspot is a dark region that periodically appears on the surface of the Sun. Sunspot or Sunspots may also refer to:
Usage examples of sunspot.
Welser thought perhaps Prince Cesi of the Lyncean Academy, with whom he also corresponded, should publish the sunspot report as part of an ongoing series.
In private, however, he perused his old sunspot files to see what, if anything, he might have missed before.
Two hours after that first sunspot storm hit, every TV repairman in the United States was on the road.
He was convinced that the significant cycle was really twenty-two years and not eleven, for during the first half the magnetic character of sunspot regions followed one pattern, reversing during the second half.
Sam Cottage, monitoring the Sun on the morning after lift-off, saw with interest that Region 419 had maintained its horseshoe configuration, with signs indicating that a sunspot big enough to see with the naked eye might be developing, but there was no indication that a solar proton event might erupt.
F2 that threw out vast quantities of ionized radiation at all times, and right now it was at the peak of a sunspot cycle.
Though its intensity is slackening, the present level of sunspot activity prevents our use of the particle transporter.
Having a force of nature working against you-in this case the lethal sunspot interference in the transporter beam-was infinitely worse than twenty-twenty hindsight.
I have to use my field generators to create a sunspot underneath you as you descend, a cooler area, with a helmet streamer to create a flow of cooler plasma, a stream the Phoenix can follow to come down here to my dock.
Wispy strands of darker gas soiled about an invisible magnetic field which arched over a sunspot almost a thousand kilometers below.
It was merely one filigree in a chain that arched for 200,000 kilometers over a sunspot group below.
At some indeterminable distance, a great sunspot group stretched away.
The red Sun was back, and with it the filament, the sunspot far below, and the spinning toruses.
Where the field intervened, the sunspot shimmered and rippled with new pulsations, added to its own.
This phenomenon involves the rotation of the Sun and the subsequent appearance of a powerful sunspot that comes into alignment with the Earth.