WHAT ARE SUNSPOTS ?

                                  WHAT ARE SUNSPOTS 

Visible feature on the sun's surface sunspots are dark regions on the photosphere a particular strong portion of the sun's magnetic filed has slowed the gas that is rising to the surface. The center of the sunspots, depressed a little below the level of the surrounding gas, exhibit a lower temperature than surrounding photosphere, creating a visible spot.sunspots can measure up to several times Earth's diameter. Their activity increasing and decreasing in an 11 year cycle. Early in each cycle, most sunspots appear the sun near then's 30*N and 30*S latitudes.Later in the in the cycle,they occur closer to its equator. During the low point in the cycle ,called the solar minimum, the sun goes for days or even week without flaring