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Description: Solar features
Sunspots
On the solar surface
Dark center, the umbra, surrounded by a lighter region, the penumbra
Dark color is due to a cooler temperature (1500 K less than the solar surface)
Follow an 11-year cycle
Large spots are strongly magnetized
Pairs have opposite magnetic poles

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