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The Sun - LearningSpace - OpenLearn - The Open University - The
sun dominates our lives by defining our day, but how much do you
know and understand about it? This unit will help you to explore the
workings of the brightest star in our universe looking at its
structure and the main processes taking place within it. You will
also examine the phenomena of sun spots
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Sunspot Record 1874-2000
- The Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) compiled sunspot observations from a small network of
observatories to produce a dataset of daily observations starting in May of 1874
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Sunspots in History
- Want to know the sunspot number on your birth date? During the great depression, or at the end of World War II? Find out here,
and also visit the Sunspots and Solar Cycle home page
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The Sun -
The Sun is our nearest star. Because of that, we can study it better than any other star. And when you do that, you see that the Sun isn't as boring as it may look from earth! In the following `Trip through the Sun' you'll see flames on the Sun larger than ten earths, winds going 1000 mph, and you'll see how the earth eventually will be scorched by the dying Sun
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