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The most obvious solar cycle the sunspot cycle, of roughly 11 years (on average - the length of an actual cycle may vary). Once in every sunspot cycle, the Sun's magnetic field reverses (north become south, and south becomes north), so a full cycle (for north to be back where it started) is twice the sunspot cycle.

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because de internal sun dinamo es double, for do a complete cicle it need 2 "half" 11 year cicle, 11 year with one polatity, other 11 with other.

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because de internal sun dinamo es double, for do a complete cicle it need 2 "half" 11 year cicle, 11 year with one polatity, other 11 with other.


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