Posted on 09/08/2022 12:02:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
On Tuesday morning, solar activity news website Spaceweather.com reported: "There are two sunspots on the farside of the sun so large they are affecting the way the sun vibrates."
The study of the sun's vibrations is known as helioseismology, and it's a key area of solar science. Helioseismology involves studying sound waves from inside the sun, which can give clues as to what's happening on parts of the sun we can't see.
It's similar to regular seismology here on Earth, in which scientists can work out what's going on inside our planet by studying sound waves that travel through our planet.
The sun is a ball of hot gas, so sound waves travel through its interior very well. Of course, scientists can't hear these sound waves from Earth, but they can detect them by measuring small changes in the light given off by the sun, according to the European Space Agency ...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
And all we have to do to “stop” this climate change is set our thermostat at 85 right? Go away.
Wow a big time event in the sky.
Sunspot Baby
Sure had a real good time
That sun burned me at the Trump rally last Saturday.
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