‘Sunspot archipelago’ 15 times wider than Earth is spotted on the sun
They look like small dots of pepper on a tasty egg yolk, or an ‘archipelago’ – a big group of islands on some faraway yellow planet. But the latest set of snaps from NASA actually show a cluster of ‘sunspots’ – cooler parts on the sun’s surface caused by massive changes in our star’s magnetic field. …
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