The Sun - as you've never seen it before


	The Sun - as you've never seen it before

hayliirjsmom

7-27-2007 3:05 AM

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7-28-2007 8:45 AM

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quite firey & awesome pic ..

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The 11 year long solar cycle is marked by two extremes, solar minimum and solar maximum. Solar minimum is the period of least solar activity in the solar cycle of the Sun. 
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During this time the sun becomes much calmer, with sunspot and solar flare activity dying down.
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When spots begin to appear on the sun once again, scientists know that the Sun is heading into a new season of extreme solar activity. 
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At the solar cycle's peak, solar maximum, the Sun puts on quite a show. 
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Its surface is continually peppered with spots, solar flares erupt, and it hurls gigantic clouds of electrified gas into space.
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