Light Eye
08-16-2006, 11:26 AM
dear friends,
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm?list29945
be well, be love.
david
backward sunspot
08.15.2006
en español
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august 15, 2006: on july 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. it popped up from the
sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. on the
sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be
worth mentioning. but this sunspot was special: it was backward.
"we've been waiting for this," says david hathaway, a solar physicist at the
marshall space flight in huntsville, alabama. "a backward sunspot is a sign that
the next solar cycle is beginning."
right: the tiny, backward sunspot of july 31, 2006. credit: soho. [larger
image]
"backward" means magnetically backward. hathaway explains:
[non-text portions of this message have been removed]
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm?list29945
be well, be love.
david
backward sunspot
08.15.2006
en español
-->
august 15, 2006: on july 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. it popped up from the
sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. on the
sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be
worth mentioning. but this sunspot was special: it was backward.
"we've been waiting for this," says david hathaway, a solar physicist at the
marshall space flight in huntsville, alabama. "a backward sunspot is a sign that
the next solar cycle is beginning."
right: the tiny, backward sunspot of july 31, 2006. credit: soho. [larger
image]
"backward" means magnetically backward. hathaway explains:
[non-text portions of this message have been removed]