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The Relative Size of a Sunspot

The main image is an enlargement of a sunspot: you can see from the insets at the lower right and left the size of the sunspot compared to the sun and Earth. The pattern around the sunspot is granulation: these are parts of the convection cells formed by upwelling hot plasma. You can see similar patterns in a thick sauce heated on a stove.




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