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We're not sure, although this is a matter of intense study. We know that there is a correlation between low sunspot numbers and low solar activity, and we know that there is a correlation between high numbers of sunspots and high solar activity. We're pretty sure that one doesn't cause the other, but that both are caused by some other factor of which we are not yet aware.
There have been two recorded periods in the last few hundred years during which there was a long spell of lower-than-normal sunspot activity, and these are named for the astronomers who noted them. These were called the "Maunder Minimum" and the "Dalton Minimum", and each was followed by a period of unusually cool weather.
Here also, we're not sure what the relationship is, or if it was just coincidental.
If you would like to see the current sunspot number and a photo of the Sun today, visit spaceweather.com at the link below.
Maude Kulas
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solar flares are ejected from the sun every so often. It relates to solar activity on the sun
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Which features of the sun look like huge cloudlike arches?
Prominences
What are blasts of gas from the sun's atmosphere that sometimes forms enormous loops?
These are "solar prominences" (closely relates to solar flares).
Electrically charged flares that arch up from the sun are known as?
solar flare or solar prominences
Which ones are filled w hydrogen ions sunspots solar winds solar prominences solar flares?
Sunspots
How can the tree main types of solar activity sunspots solar flares and prominences be differentiated from each other?
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How solar flares and solar prominences differ.?
solar flares isfire
What object in the solar system has flares and prominences?
The Sun... :)
Blasts of gas from the sun's atmosphere that sometimes form enormous loops?
Solar flares. I think the answer is "solar prominences".
Which features of the sun look like huge cloudlike arches?
Prominences
Which heavenly body has flares and prominences?
The sun is the heavenly body that has flares and prominences. Sunspots and solar wind are other natural phenomena associated with the sun.
What features can be found on the surface of the sun?
solar flares, sun spots, and prominences
What is a solar that have huge loops of hot gases?
Coronal ejections or solar flares or prominences
What are blasts of gas from the sun's atmosphere that sometimes forms enormous loops?
These are "solar prominences" (closely relates to solar flares).
Electrically charged flares that arch up from the sun are known as?
solar flare or solar prominences
Which ones are filled w hydrogen ions sunspots solar winds solar prominences solar flares?
Sunspots
How are prominences solar flares corona solar wind are related to the sun?
sun prominences are like loops that come out of the sun if you look it up you'll probly find pictures. solar flares are like prominences but they dont make a loop they just go straight out. the corona is the outer most layer of the sun.
Massive eruption from the surface of the sun?
Solar flares and prominences could fit this description.
