But during periods of intense sunspot activity, which coincide with solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the geomagnetic flow from the sun is much stronger. These magnetic storms produce heightened, spectacular displays of the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis, otherwise known as the Northern and Southern Lights. As Fisher describes it, "The earth has a protective cocoon of magnetic field called the magnetosphere, and it normally protects us from the magnetic particles of the solar wind, and the other energetic particles in the solar wind.
But during a coronal mass ejection we actually have a chunk of the sun that breaks away and hits the earth's magnetosphere, and disturbs it, and this disturbance shows up as aurorae. Observatory The Exploratorium. We are approaching solar minimum in so we see few or no sunspots or active regions on the sun on any given day. Sunspots and Active Regions.
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First Name. Last Name. Next Photosphere. Solar cycles started being assigned consecutive numbers. This number assignment began with solar cycle 1 in and the most recent being cycle 24 — which began in December, and is now nearing solar minimum. A new solar cycle is considered to have begun when sunspot groups emerge at higher latitudes with the magnetic polarities of the leading spots opposite that of the previous cycle.
Generally, sunspot reports from observatories calculate sunspot numbers whereby each sunspot group counts as 10, and every umbra within each spot group is individually considered as 1. Therefore, no sunspots on the visible Sun would be considered as zero; while the next possible number can only be 11 or higher. Clette, L.
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