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Last Post 10/19/2011 7:09 AM by  Terry Kucera
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10/19/2011 6:24 AM

    How many sun spots are on the sun right now?

    Sarah / Titan!

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    Terry Kucera



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    10/19/2011 7:09 AM

    Hi Sarah,

    You can count for your self here:

    http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/synoptic/sunspots_earth/mdi_sunspots_1024.jpg

    In that image they label seven sun spot groups as of the time I am writing this. Some of these are made up of a bunch of sunspots, while in one of them I see no sunspot at all (either it is very small or it disappeared since the last time that labeled the groups) .

    cheers,

    Terry

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