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Solar conveyor belt speeds up
What is the origin of the 11-year solar magnetic cycle? The late onset of the new solar cycle and the unusually deep minimum between cycles 23 and 24 took all experts by surprise, which suggests that there is a fundamental lack in our understanding of the origin of the solar activity cycle...
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Eclipse 2010 Composite (July 16, 2010)
A solar eclipse photo (gray and white) from the Williams College Expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific (July 11, 2010) was embedded with an image of the Sun’s outer corona taken by the Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on the SOHO spacecraft...
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Solar Equation
Solar Equation is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun (100 million times smaller than the real thing) that made its opening debut on...
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