All news for July 19, 2009
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FEATURE Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved?, NASA (Jul 19, 2009)
June
17, 2009: The
sun is in the pits of a century-class solar minimum, and sunspots
have been puzzlingly scarce for more than two years. Now,
for the first time, solar physicists might understand why.
At
an American Astronomical Society press conference today in
Boulder, Colorado, researchers announced that a jet stream
deep inside the sun is migrating...