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Unpredictable Sun leaves researchers in the dark

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We agree with the view expressed in your News Feature “The dark side of the Sun” (Nature 441, 402–404; 2006) that solar magnetic activity is important. It leads to such dangerous events as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, as well as being associated with fascinating phenomena such as sunspots and the solar cycle.

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Tobias, S., Hughes, D. & Weiss, N. Unpredictable Sun leaves researchers in the dark. Nature 442, 26 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/442026c

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