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Wang's research began in 1987 when, he says, sunspot activity was on the rise. "I was reading a report published by the Beijing Observatory while waiting for a haircut and noticed a very interesting pattern of sunspot areas in it," Wang said...
After that, Wang says, he examined the sunspot areas in the northern and southern hemispheres and found that there are persistent differences between...
Wang's report tells of this asymmetry between the two sunspot areas and predicts its future patterns...
There could easily have been major territorial conflict, but scientific cooperation intervened. It took the form of the International Geophysical Year, actually 18 months long, which was scheduled to take advantage of the peak of sunspot activity predicted for 1957 and 1958. Sixty-seven countries joined in this exhaustive study of the interactions between the sun and earth. Much of the research went on in Antarctica, where Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the U.S. and the Soviet Union established bases...
...SUNSPOT, N. MEX.: senior correspondent J. Madeleine Nash has been eager to report a story from that intriguing dateline since she learned of its existence at a gathering of astronomers last year. For this week's cover, Nash finally got her wish. "Sunspot isn't properly a town," she says, but a "singularly beautiful place, high on a mountain peak, that is one of the world's most important centers of solar research." The day after her arrival, Nash looked through a telescope "longer than a football field" to view the rising sun. She glimpsed a stunning, white-hot world...