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Sunspot   /sˈənspˌɑt/   Listen
Sunspot

noun
1.
A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field.  Synonym: macula.





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"Sunspot" Quotes from Famous Books



... only a few observatories scanned the sun regularly. To the observatories, the cruiser would have been only a tiny speck, too small to be noticed. Or if they had noticed it, the astronomers probably decided it was just a very tiny sunspot. ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage


Words linked to "Sunspot" :   maculation, patch, dapple, macula, spot, fleck, speckle


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