Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What is happening to our sun?



Scientists say sunspots come and go but in the last two years they are mostly gone and it is unusual. David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. says "This is solar behavior we haven't seen in living memory"

It is think that missing sunspots and other phenomenons indicates that the sun's magnetic activity is diminishing. All together it seems that something huge is happening inside the sun.

What is happening?
You can find out more reading the article in The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/21/AR2010062104114.html?g=0

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