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Scientists to capture sunspot images during solar eclipse

During the upcoming total solar eclipse on August 21, a team of solar physicists are planning to capture high-resolution sunspots — the visible concentrations of magnetic fields on the Sun’s surface — at microwave radio wavelengths. Sunspots are the primary generator of solar flares, the sudden, powerful blasts of electromagnetic radiation and charged particles that …

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August 19, 2017