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Backward sunspot heralds start of new solar cycleFrom NASA Science News for August 15, 2006 On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours. On the sun, this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward. "We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar
physicist at the Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A
backward sunspot is a sign that the next solar cycle is beginning." Check out the RSS feed at
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