Please explain to me in simplifyed terms the suns magnetic field and the effects this has on solar activity?
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www.spaceweather.com
or www.space.com
you can browse these websites they have wonderful information
Sorry you don't like the wikipedia entries... in the astronomy section they are pretty good :)
And I'm certainly not going to type out a fifteen page monograph to respond to a question on AnswersRoom.com when the info is easily found elsewhere :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solar_flare...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sun#magneti...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sun#solar_c...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sunspot...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solar_promi...
I agree with cutting and pasteing from on line sources as bunk. Any way consider the Sun to be a giant magnet. And the Earth is a magnet. The interaction between these two magnets generates electrical storms, of which we see as the northern and southern lights. Sunspots are magnetic storms on the surface of the sun. They appear in cycles of 11 years, and the peak times usually give us beautiful northern lights and unfortunately interferes with our radio transmissions on Earth. Solar flares usually accompany these storms and reach out from the surface of the sun millions of miles. According to an issue of Sky and Telescope, in August of circa 1970 a flare hit the earth with such magnitude it affected our rotation. I believe 1968 (going by memory and not looking up anything) was the high point of the storm cycle.
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