Crossword-Solution: SUNSPOTS 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Cause of radio interference. 1 answer
Solar activity 1 answer
Solar features. 1 answer
Source of interference 1 answer
Supposed causes of magnetic phenomena. 1 answer
They have umbras and penumbras 1 answer
Astronomy phenomena 2 answers
Solar phenomena 4 answers
Astronomer's concern. 5 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with SUNSPOTS (5)

Also the cause of {bit rot} --- from the myth that sunspots will increase {cosmic rays}, which can flip single bits in memory.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Even after they were inside, this image lingered bright in his mind's eye like sunspots on the eyelids.
Undo Joe Hutsko 1996
Also the cause of bit rot -- from the myth that sunspots will increase cosmic rays, which can flip single bits in memory.
The New Hacker's Dictionary version 4.2.2 Various editors 2002
His peculiar mode of rotation; the level of sunspots; the constitution of the photospheric cloud-shell, its relation to faculae which rise from it, and to the surmounting vaporous strata; the nature of the prominences; the alternations of coronal types; the affinities of the zodiacal light--all await investigation.
Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing 2004
Stars very far advanced in evolution, without showing variability, also exhibit similar spectra; so that there is much reason for regarding sunspots as emblems of advancing age.
Curiosities of the Sky Garrett P. Serviss 2003

Quotes with SUNSPOTS (3)

The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you don’t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. He’ll use his word, and if I understand it, I’ll say, “Oh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
We have written the equations of water flow. From experiment, we find a set of concepts and approximations to use to discuss the solution--vortex streets, turbulent wakes, boundary layers. When we have similar equations in a less familiar situation, and one for which we cannot yet experiment, we try to solve the equations in a primitive, halting, and confused way to try to determine what new qualitatitive features may come out, or what new qualitative forms are a consequence …
Richard Feynman
Never suntan! Ten minutes in the sun on a daily basis is good to get vitamin D, but sun tanning is terrible for your skin. It dehydrates your skin, creates sunspots, and can give you skin cancer.
Eiza Gonzalez
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1957–2019).