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What are sunspots? To which factors are they related?

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Sunspots are area on the sun surface that appear darker than the neighbouring area these are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic field flux that inhibit convection. They appear in pairs of opposite magnetic polarity.

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