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#PREVIEW: #SUNSPOTS: From a conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, re the 11 year long Solar cycle of sunspot activity, now likely approaching Solar Maximum -- and the acknowledgement that we don't know much about how the sun -- ev

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#PREVIEW: #SUNSPOTS: From a conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com, re the 11 year long Solar cycle of sunspot activity, now likely approaching Solar Maximum -- and the acknowledgement that we don't know much about how the sun -- even after keeping track of its sunspots for more than two centuries. More solar system exploring later.

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Sun's box activity.

0:33.0

The Solar Cycle.

0:34.6

I learned from Bob Zimmerman, who keeps the website behind the black,

0:38.4

that we're approaching the solar maximum,

0:41.1

perhaps one peak, perhaps two peaks. It's an 11-year cycle goes up and down the

0:45.6

number of sunspots on the surface of the sun that we can see from Earth. There's sunspots

0:51.6

on the other side, but that doesn't count because they've been watching

0:54.9

this side only for more than 200 years.

0:58.4

What does it mean?

0:59.8

It might affect our climate.

1:02.2

It might be a way of solving the most important star in all of the Cosmos, our Sun.

1:07.0

Bob emphasizes to me, as he does its report monthly, that we don't know very much.

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