sunspot
Noun
Meaning
sunspot (plural sunspots)
(astronomy) A region on the sun's surface with a lower temperature than its surroundings and intense magnetic activity.
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The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.
61 Cygni A has about 11% more mass than 61 Cygni B. It has an activity cycle that is much more pronounced than the solar sunspot cycle.
According to the report, a few minor space flares have been emitted by this particular Sunspot group already, which has not caused anything major other than “minor waves of ionization to ripple through Earth’s upper atmosphere”.
Given how stripped down the movie is, you wouldn’t expect to see Sunspot going full Sunspot and Magik manifesting he Soulsword and armored arm, but is apparently more than down to get right into that kind of comics wildness.
Graph showing proxies of solar activity, including changes in sunspot number and cosmogenic isotope production.
Douglass sought to better understand cycles of sunspot activity and reasoned that changes in solar activity would affect climate patterns on earth, which would subsequently be recorded by tree-ring growth patterns (i.