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Backward Sunspot: New Solar Cycle Starting?
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post Aug 16 2006, 10:20 AM
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm

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."
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