Which recently discovered fact about the Sun might have some bearing on climate changes and the weather on Earth?
A) The Sun's surface is oscillating up and down every 5 minutes.
B) There are far fewer neutrinos emitted from the Sun than predicted.
C) Solar wind seems to originate in cooler regions of the corona-the coronal holes-and their number varies month by month.
D) The Sun's overall energy output depends on the 11-year sunspot cycle.
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Q143: A solar plage is a
A) cooler region
Q144: One of the phenomena that accompanied the
Q146: What is a plage?
A) sudden eruption on
Q147: Which of these is NOT considered to
Q148: The Maunder minimum is the name given
Q149: What is helioseismology?
A) study of the Sun's
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