AaS! 44: How does the sun get spots?

Ask a Spaceman!

Paul M. Sutter

Astrophysics, Science, Cosmos, Holes, Black, Astronomy, Natural Sciences, Universe, Cosmology, Space, Physics

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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How do sunspots work? What do magnetic fields have to do with it? Who was Zeeman and why was his splitting so important? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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1:00.9	You know what time. It is. It's time for. Ask a Space Man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got
1:09.6	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 me directly at Paul Matt Sutter. Or you can email me, Ask aSpaceman at gmail.com. Or you can visit me at my house, no, at my website, askaspaceman.com.
1:32.2	You can also check out the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash C slash Paul Matt Sutter,
1:37.8	which contains like these topics that you're listening to now, but I wave my arms around a lot.
1:43.6	So maybe that will help you
1:45.3	understand the topics better. Maybe not. I don't know. So we have one simple goal with this show.
1:53.7	Complete knowledge of time and space. And on that way, I have a confession. I, you know I have a lot of questions and I love it and please keep sending me questions.
2:06.2	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.
2:19.0	I thought this episode that you're about to hear would be a nice catch-all episode about the sun.
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