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Old May 23rd 09, 01:32 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default What are the white spots showing on the sun

Telamon wrote:
In article
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Graham wrote:

What are the white spots showing on the sun .... are these solar
flares ?
something showing on this :-

http://www.bbso.njit.edu/Images/daily/images/kfull.jpg


but image will change with time (22/5)


full set of images :-


http://www.n3kl.org/sun/


Very small sunspots where the field lines are not twisted much or very
strong. Look at the magnetogram where the red spots are negative gauss
and the blue positive gauss.

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/cur_mag_fe1.html


http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/ima...t_195_full.gif