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Old 01-02-2014, 07:31 PM   #1158 (permalink)
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Sunspots, flares and coronal mass ejections are more involved with the magnetics and solar wind. The increased temps are possibly related to the weakening Solar and Earth magnetics allowing more galactic radiation to impinge on our planetary surface.

There's an huge sunspot rotating in on the Eastern limb today.