Story Ideas from Sunspots & Other Solar Phenomena

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Story Ideas from Sunspots & Other Solar Phenomena

By Deb Gallardo

Here are three links to NASA’s Space Weather articles by the inimitable Dr. Tony Phillips and staff. These articles, as well as all of that site’s information, present complex data in a highly accessible and interesting format. You’ll be speaking fluent “space science” before you know it, and all without sounding like an egghead (with apologies to any eggheads who are proud of it — I know and love several!)

With so few sunspots, is our sun dying? Nope. It’s behaving normally.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.htm

The “blankest” year for sunspots in the Space Age is what scientists are calling 2008, as our sun continues in Solar Minimum.

Here’s a photo of a “blank” sun.