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2012 Annular Solar Eclipse
3:00 pm, Sunday, May 20, 2012
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How does the intense magnetic activity at the locations of sunspots result in their cooling?
That's a great question! Sunspots are visibly darker areas that appear on the Sun’s surface, or photosphere, when magnetic activity increases. They basically represent locations where immensely...