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Solar Mystery Solved by Astronomer's Drawings From Hundreds of Years Ago
• arcleinThe spots are simply cooler and darker than the surrounding hot and bright material. Their temperature is around 3,800 K instead of just under 6,000 K for the average photospheric temperature. The Sun is a great big ball of plasma and it has a m