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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5135.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5135. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Sun, Solar Activity

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The periodic increase and decrease in the number of sunspots and sunspot groups on the surface of the Sun. The number of spots and groups reaches a maximum, on average, once every 11 years. At the intervening sunspot minima, the solar disk may be devoid of spots for weeks on end. On average, the rise to maximum activity takes 4 to 5 years and the subsequent decline to the next minimum, about 6 to...

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