{"id":256125,"date":"2023-05-05T20:10:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256125"},"modified":"2023-05-05T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T18:10:51","slug":"reversed-polarity-sunspot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256125","title":{"rendered":"Reversed-Polarity Sunspot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By DR.TONY PHILLIPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 4, 2023:<\/strong> New sunspot AR3296 is breaking the law: Hale\u2019s Law<\/a>. The sunspot\u2019s magnetic field is reversed compared to other nearby sunspots in the sun\u2019s northern hemisphere. This magnetogram from NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows the situation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to Hale\u2019s Law, Solar Cycle 25 sunspots in the sun\u2019s northern hemisphere should have a -\/+ polarity (negative on the left, positive on the right). AR3296 is reversed; its polarity is +\/-.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies show that about 3% of all sunspots violate Hale\u2019s Law. In most ways, reversed polarity sunspots are totally normal. They have about the same lifespan and size as ordinary sunspots. In one important way, however, they are different. According to\u00a0a 1982 survey by Frances Tang<\/a>\u00a0of the Big Bear Solar Observatory, reversed polarity sunspots are more than twice as likely to develop complex magnetic fields, in which + and \u2013 are mixed together. Reversed polarity sunspots are therefore more likely to\u00a0explode<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Solar flare alerts:<\/strong>\u00a0SMS Text<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This story is brought to you by\u00a0Spaceweather.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New sunspot AR3296 is breaking the law:\u00a0Hale\u2019s Law. The sunspot\u2019s magnetic field is reversed compared to other nearby sunspots in the sun\u2019s northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":256129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818959,691818872,691819344,691819083],"class_list":{"0":"post-256125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-nasas-solar-dynamics-observatory","9":"tag-northern-hemisphere","10":"tag-solar-cycle-25","11":"tag-sunspots","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0Screenshot-2023-05-05-195110-1.png?fit=835%2C586&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-14D3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":213777,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=213777","url_meta":{"origin":256125,"position":0},"title":"Dark Plasma Eruption from a Reversed Polarity Sunspot","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/08\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Traveling faster than 600 km\/s (1.3 million mph), the plume tore through the sun\u2019s outer atmosphere, creating a coronal mass ejection (CME).","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/0dramatic_strip.gif?fit=520%2C382&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":199400,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=199400","url_meta":{"origin":256125,"position":1},"title":"A Mixed Up Sunspot","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/05\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"May 10, 2022:\u00a0 Sunspot AR3006 is having an identity crisis. 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