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Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun

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nuny@bid.nes <Alien8752@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 9:45:45 AM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about 
>> our Sun
>> > http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.7199
>> 
>> > As hikers and other navigators know, Earth's magnetic axis is tilted
>> > with respect to its rotation axis. Such misalignment had not been
>> > expected in the Sun--but now it's been seen. NASA's Solar Dynamics
>> > Observatory (SDO) has been trained on the Sun for half of the current
>> > 11-year cycle of solar activity. Using SDO's Helioseismic and
>> > Magnetic Imager, Adur Pastor Yabar of the Institute of Astrophysics
>> > of the Canary Islands and his colleagues created daily maps of the
>> > line-of-sight strength and polarity of the Sun's magnetic field for
>> > each of the mission's first 1700 days.
> 
>   To drag the topic back to actual physics- does the surface rotation or the magnetic field axis maintain a constant direction on space?
> 
> 
>   Mark L. Fergerson

You mean other than the regular reversal with every sunspot cycle?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 11:45 -0500
  Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 16:55 +0000
    Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 12:04 -0500
      Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 17:31 +0000
      Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 20:02 +0200
        Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-07 13:15 -0500
        Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2015-09-07 14:43 -0400
  Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 16:12 -0700
    Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-07 23:31 +0000
      Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 18:36 -0700
        Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 03:40 +0000
    Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun jaymoseley@hotmail.com - 2015-09-08 03:14 -0700
    Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 08:44 -0500
  Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun trudi.schwander@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 05:42 -0700
    Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 08:33 -0500
      Re: A five-year sequence of daily observations has yielded a surprise about our Sun gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-08 10:11 -0500

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