[Click
here to see what's below a Sunspot] (Animation,
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Courtesy
of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual
Image Lab
In
the image on the left you can see Sunspots
on the Solar disk. The image at right is
a “magnetogram”; it shows regions
of intense magnetic fields. The red areas
are regions of positive magnetic polarity
(N) and the blue areas are regions of negative
magnetic polarity (S). Can you see how
the magnetic fields in the magnetogram
are closely associated with the Sunspots
in the first image?
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