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ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares

Posted: 19 Aug 2011 11:15 AM PDT

Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. But researchers have now developed a way to detect incipient sunspots as deep as 65,000 kilometers inside the sun, providing up to two days' advance warning of a damaging solar flare.

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