sunspot
IPA: sˈʌnspɑt
noun
- (astronomy) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.
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Examples of "sunspot" in Sentences
- He discovered the periodicity of sunspots.
- Sunspots are kinks or knots in the sun's magnetic field.
- The dark area on the left of the solar disk is a sunspot.
- The dark area visible in the lower left is a large sunspot.
- All were shown to allow the existence of sunspot equilibria.
- I'd say it's a lot like the sunspot correlations of the past.
- The last one in the set was the sun becoming one huge sunspot.
- Sceptics say this is caused by the failure of the sunspot cycle.
- The amount of ionization possible is related to the 11 year sunspot cycle.
- A sunspot is a dark region that periodically appears on the surface of the Sun.
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