{"id":659116,"date":"2020-06-25T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659116"},"modified":"2020-06-25T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:00:07","slug":"motions-in-the-sun-reveal-inner-workings-of-sunspot-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=659116","title":{"rendered":"Motions in the sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun&#8217;s magnetic activity follows an 11-year cycle. Over the course of a solar cycle, the sun&#8217;s magnetic activity comes and goes. During solar maximum, large sunspots and active regions appear on the sun&#8217;s surface. Spectacular loops of hot plasma stretch throughout the sun&#8217;s atmosphere and eruptions of particles and radiation shoot into interplanetary space. During solar minimum, the sun calms down considerably. A striking regularity appears in the so-called butterfly diagram, which describes the position of sunspots in a time-latitude plot. At the beginning of a solar cycle, sunspots emerge at mid-latitudes. As the cycle progresses, they emerge closer and closer to the equator. To explain this &#8220;butterfly diagram,&#8221; solar physicists suspect that the deep magnetic field is carried toward the equator by a large-scale flow.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-motions-sun-reveal-sunspot.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Motions in the sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycle<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun&#8217;s magnetic activity follows an 11-year cycle. Over the course of a solar cycle, the sun&#8217;s magnetic activity comes and goes. During solar maximum, large sunspots and active regions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}