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Sound waves escaping the sun's interior create fountains of hot gas that shape and power a thin region of the sun's atmosphere which appears as a ruby red "ring of fire" around the moon during a total solar eclipse, according to new research.
Solar activity increased on Jan. 13 as massive active regions of the sun rounded its east limb to face Earth.
Recently, NSF's NSO successfully transitioned the processing of these important observations of the Sun’s magnetic field and lower atmosphere to the operation
Research team 'listens' to changing sound waves from the sun's interior A large sunspot is rotating onto the face of the sun. November 24, 2020 Scientists at the U.S National Science FoundationNational Solar Observatory have predicted the emergence of a new sunspot group just in time for Thanksgiving. Using a technique called helioseismology, the team has been "listening" to changing sound waves from the sun's interior. Recent changes in these sound waves point to the imminent appearance of a new sunspot group, which can now be seen from Earth near the eastern solar limb. "We measured a chang...