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Study the zoomed-in view of a large sunspot group taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, March 29, 2010
Zoomed-in view of a large sunspot group taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager...
Study the magnetic fields in a sunspot pair as observed by the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager, March 29, 2010
Magnetic fields in a sunspot pair, as observed by the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager...
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sunspot group
Sunspot group in active region 10030, observed by the Swedish Solar Telescope. The...
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences/The Institute for Solar Physics
Galileo Galilei: sunspots
Illustration from Galileo's Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari...
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active region of the Sun
Active region toward the limb of the Sun, with spicules (right) and some sunspots...
LOCKHEED MARTIN/Solar and Astrophysics Lab
photosphere of the Sun
Photosphere of the Sun with sunspots, image taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory...
SOHO/NASA
average yearly sunspot numbers
Graph of average yearly sunspot numbers showing the 11-year solar cycle.
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sunspot drawings
Drawings of sunspots from German mathematician Christoph Scheiner's Rosa Ursina...
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