You know what time. It is. It's time for Ask a Space Man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how this show works, but let's spot it one more time. You go online, Twitter or Facebook. use the hashtag Ask a Spaceman, or you can follow

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channel, YouTube.com slash C slash Paul Matt Sutter, which contains like these topics that you're listening to now, but I wave my arms around a lot. So maybe that will help you understand the topics better. Maybe not. I don't know. So we have one simple goal with this show. Complete knowledge of time and space. And on that way, I have a confession. You know I have a lot of questions and I love it. And please keep sending me questions. So I try to find episodes where like I can combine a whole bunch of

questions into a single topic and just talk about that topic and knock a bunch of questions

off the list. I thought this episode that you're about to hear would be a nice catch-all episode about the sun.

Lots. I've gotten lots of questions about the sun, all sorts of cool stuff.

I thought it'd start with sun spots, which is super easy, and then get to a bunch of other stuff.

And it'd be fun, and this would be like The the sun show and i wouldn't have to talk about

the sun for a while because i will have answered a lot of questions so i was preparing you know

i was i was no about sun spots but i was like building a narrative and making sure i got the

details right and blah blah blah and then in blah. And then in my notes, I type the phrase,

Zmon splitting. Yeah, yeah, Zmon splitting. We're going to get there. Oh, what in the world that is.

And I realize when I type that, this is not going to be a catch-all episode about the sun.

This is going to be an episode about sunspots, and that's pretty much it.

I ain't got time to talk about other stuff because I got to talk about Zmon splitting,

and Zmon splitting takes a little bit amount of time to talk about.

I ain't got time for other stuff.

So thank you to Michael H on Facebook asking, how do sunspots form?

So here we go. Like sunspots. They're spots on the sun. Relatively self-explanatory. Usually I complain about

astronomical nomenclature because it makes no sense. Sunspots, very straightforward. Love it.

Now, let that concept sink in for a bit. The sun has spots. If you never knew about it,

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