{"id":30763,"date":"2018-02-06T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=30763"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:57:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T19:57:49","slug":"solar-minimum-a-relative-large-sunspot-makes-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/solar-minimum-a-relative-large-sunspot-makes-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Minimum: A “relatively large” sunspot makes appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Image: spaceweather.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

With Solar Minimum right around the corner, sunspot counts are at an almost 10-year low. So it came as a surprise yesterday when a relatively large sunspot emerged near the sun’s eastern limb.<\/p>\n

AR2699<\/strong>\u00a0has a primary dark core larger than Earth with many smaller magnetic condensations trailing behind it, in all stretching more than 75,000 km across the sun’s surface.<\/p>\n

Rare “solar minimum sunspots” are capable of intense explosions just like sunspots during more active phases of the solar cycle.<\/p>\n

Visit\u00a0Spaceweather.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information and updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC) With Solar Minimum right around the corner, sunspot counts are at an almost 10-year low. So it came as a surprise yesterday when a relatively large sunspot emerged near the sun’s eastern limb. AR2699\u00a0has a primary dark core larger than Earth with many smaller magnetic condensations trailing behind it, in all stretching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,810],"tags":[580,4107,415,1127],"class_list":["post-30763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-weather","tag-southgate-arc","tag-space-weather","tag-sun-spot-cycle","tag-sun-spots"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-80b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40431,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/one-sunspot-into-solar-cycle-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":30763,"position":0},"title":"One sunspot into Solar Cycle 25","author":"Thomas","date":"November 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Spaceweather Archive via Michael Bird) Nov. 1, 2019:\u00a0Breaking a string of 28 spotless days, a new sunspot (AR2750) is emerging in the sun\u2019s southern hemisphere\u2013and it\u2019s a member of the next solar cycle. 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