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  • Here's one of my favorite NASA animations set to "Sunspots" by Nine Inch Nails.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Mac 2006

  • There isn't a bad song on this album although I do tend to jump over "Sunspots".

    Nine Inch Nails. Jeff 2006

  • There isn't a bad song on this album although I do tend to jump over "Sunspots".

    Archive 2006-06-01 Jeff 2006

  • 'Sunspots' are immense gaps or holes in the photosphere, some of them

    A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889

  • Search the rather cluttered home page and click the "Sunspots" tab to the right of "Trend Charts" toward the upper right on the page, then inspect the bar graph titled "Spotless Days vs. Cycle 23

    ARRL Amateur Radio News 2009

  • Sunspots are areas of intense magnetic power where thermal convection from the interior of the Sun has been inhibited.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1067 2009

  • Sunspots and solar flares: the heat is on | News | The Guardian

    Sunspots and solar flares: the heat is on 2011

  • Sunspots frustrate policy makers' instinctive trust that they are the ones in control of a situation, that they have the knowledge and skill to make things right.

    Don't Panic! Raymond Zhong 2012

  • Sunspots usually form pairs with opposite magnetic polarity and are responsible for solar flares.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1067 2009

  • In the course of his research, he witnesses a total eclipse in the Antarctic; visits the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena to bone up on the latest solar physics research; learns about the history of Sunspots from a Vatican astronomer; and examines for himself the pyramids and temples of the Sun in Mexico and Peru, the ancient observatory of Jaipur in India and Stonehenge on Salisbury plain.

    Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life by Richard Cohen – review Tim Radford 2010

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