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New sun spot cycle beginning?The coming sunspot cycle, the 24th since scientists identified the fairly regular recurring pattern of peaks and valleys in solar activity, is expected to begin in early 2007. Another backward sunspot: evidence continues to mount that the next solar cycle is beginning. When one solar cycle gives way to another, the magnetic poles of sunspots reverse polarity. For the second time in less than a month, such a ‘backward sunspot’ has appeared – and this time it is a big one. The first recorded observations of sunspot activity are in Chinese journals from about 800 B.C., with the first telescopic solar observations not coming until 2,400 years later, in 1610. There were a lot of observations in the first 20 to 30 years of the telescoping era and then, not much was made of the sun’s activity, until in 1840, when the sunspot cycle was discovered.
Source: Radio Bilgaria
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