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These gas vortices on the Sun can be Earth-sized or larger & last for months sunspots $1,200 DJ ASTRONOMY 2024-04-02 #9072
In 1996 the sun went an exceptional 36 days without a visible one of these dark patches Sunspots $600 DJ ASTRONOMY & SPACE 1997-02-07 #2870
The ancient Chinese thought these dark areas on the Sun looked like flying birds sunspots $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 1993-07-19 #2061
Johann von Lamont connected fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field to these solar disturbances sunspots $400 DJ ASTRONOMY 1992-03-30 #1756
Consisting of an umbra & a penumbra, these disturbances can cluster to become 200,000km across sunspots $800 DJ ASTRONOMY 1987-06-15 #656
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