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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.
A day without sunspots
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30sep_blankyear.htm
October’s sudden increase in sunspots may be a signal that Solar Minimum is ending.
FULL STORY at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/07nov_signsoflife.htm
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