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What exactly is a sunspot? I always assumed same thing as cme without ever looking into it. Sounds like there is a difference?
Love the picture btw!
Gotta admit I'm more concerned to learn what solar maximum is
Wikipedia Solar Maximum
Slightly anticlimactic, with some chance of cataclysm
No biggie if that chance happen we get to see auroras everywhere perhaps our lights won't need to be plugged. Apparently the biggest one were able to power telegraph without battery with how efficient light bulbs today it might be enough to power it until it burns out. If it happens everyone will be force to touch grass whether they like it or not.
It's just an are that is cooler than the surrounding plasma. Formed through changes in the magnetic field. Here's a cool article.
and fun fact, apparently they only look that dark in relation to the rest of the sun; they'd be a glowing orange-ish color if isolated
Oh yeah definitely still glowing hot at over 6,000F.