Trying to spot differences in the sun


	Trying to spot differences in the sun

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6-29-2009 3:45 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0f73a24a-3674-4963-bd4e-318e85eb57f1/F5CEA3C7-55AA-4C48-A5EE-C6B80808E935/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html" href="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.physorg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.physorg.com/img/AB096D99-B732-4513-A2F9-8AF72142CA66" alt="The Sun" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html"><STRONG itxtvisited="1">The sun is the focus of a deepening mystery. Solar scientists want to know: Why is the sun so quiet?</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html">
<P itxtvisited="1">So-called sunspots, intense solar storms that eject mass 
amounts of energy and darken the solar surface, have been all but missing the 
last two years. Typically, the more spots, the more energy the <A class=textTag 
href="http://www.physorg.com/tags/sun/" rel=tag>sun</A> gives off.</p> <P itxtvisited="1">What effect this might have on <A class=textTag 
href="http://www.physorg.com/tags/world+climate/" rel=tag>world climate</A> is 
unclear. Earth's atmosphere and the sun have had a long and complex 
relationship, and scientists acknowledge they still are not sure precisely what 
goes on between them.</p> <P itxtvisited="1">But changes in the deceptively volatile star evidently do 
have some impact on the planet's weather.</p> <P itxtvisited="1">Sunspots have been tied to everything from droughts to wine 
vintages to the sinking of the Titanic. A sunspot lull correlated with the 
Little Ice Age -- from the 14th through 19th centuries -- when "Greenland" 
became a misnomer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.physorg.com/news165402599.html">Recently, the sun has been ever-so-subtly weaker than usual. Last year, 266 days 
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