Are sun spots evidence of the surface of the sun opening up?

How can a disk have moving sunspots?

how can a .gif?

No one knows how the sun works. Let's just figure out what sunspots are doing for now.
From a layman perspective, it looks like they're holes.

Maybe, but we don't don't care about the math right now. All we care about is observation.
You shouldn't base formulae on concepts or theories and then ratify whatever the math spits out, but only as a further hypothesis should the theory seem valid enough.

I thought sunspots only appeared black because they were relatively darker than the stuff around them or something.

But they shouldn't be that dark. The magnetic field theories to explain the phenomena don't really seem to hold because the explanations sound like throwaway guesswork.

How much cooler are they against the rest of the body?
The typical orange sun image is supposedly taken from the visible spectrum and processed to give the orange colour, but the light should still be coming from the sun spots, instead they're black. The spots should be a dimmer colour.

why?

The average sunspot is brighter than the moon, though.

Why are any of you here on Veeky Forums?
Go back to /b/ or /x/ or wherever you belong.

Because he (OP) is a brainlet who has made up his own "theory" already, without actually researching or understanding anything

that's as much of an argument as OP's post is a theory

It was not an argument
If you are unwilling to actually understand shit, then why even post here? This board isn't /x/ where any brain fart is welcomed by a few schizos

>If you are unwilling to actually understand shit, then why even post here? This board isn't /x/ where any brain fart is welcomed by a few schizos
what the hell is going on in your head?

We're trying to figure out why the spots are black.
You can take a shot of the sun with a personal camera with a typical ISO of 800-1000 and a nice filter and get the same images.

But the spots shouldn't be black, if anything they should be brighter for unveiling an inner portion of the sun if the take this picture as a basis.

There's no way a simple filter can filter out that sort of light to the extent that it becomes black in the output, even if we take the brightness of a sun spot to be 1/4th of the brightness of the rest of the sun.

They are not black -- they are much less bright than the area around them, so look black when you step it down to something you can look at. They are comparatively dark, that's all.

This is correct.

>should

gtfo

How can it be darker if the inside of the sun supposedly is higher in temperature?
The spots should be brighter if anything.

The sun would fill the hole up and you would see the brightness from underneath the hole.

Why do you insist it's a hole and you're looking into the interior? They're areas of relative cool. They're darker than the surrounding material. That's all. What more do you want?

higher temperature doesn't equate to brighter.
please stop, this thread is fucking retarded.
reported and saged.

Here. You think you're seeing inside? look this up... Pay heed to the tiny white dots.
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100416.html

>higher temperature doesn't equate to brighter.
It does, you know.

it does for black body objects.
what do you think the sun is?

No they are due to the suns electromagnetic cycle. Peaks in solar activity occur every 11 years

That's a hand-wave explanation. How exactly would the sun's field produce that sort of effect?

Its like putting magnets into a box and then shaking the box. The magnets will allign but then new magnets start forming.

The sun would just have one field, presumably in tiers given the orbits of the planets in the solar system.

Are you saying the sun's field pulses? is there something in the fires of the sun that reorient? From the core?

The sun has differential spin and creates a lot of energy. There is also spinning gas in the convection zone. The result is multiple magnet fields. The fields are responsible for solar flares, sun spots, spindles. The sun has multiple fields that reorient themselves like a box of magnets would.

That doesn't make sense. Gases are too fine to produce a cohesive magnetic field.

the sun isn't gas it's fucking plasma

[math]yes,\space obviously[/math]

>they're places where the surface of the sun has ejected material
No they're not.

I do not understand why you don't look this stuff up on the web? Why are you here? Are you simply trolls? This is the dumbest thread I have seen since... dare I say it... flat Earth!

"Sunspots are dark blotches on the Sun in which magnetic forces are very strong, and these forces block the hot solar plasma, and as a result sunspots are cooler and darker than their surroundings."

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/SORCE/sorce_03.php

What does that even mean?

How do the fields work? What's the sun doing?
Why are the spots so dark even with the filters?
Why should they be cooler at all when the current core model of the sun exists?
How deep are the spots? Are they troughs in the sun? Why can't you see underneath them?
How do they form? Why do they form? Why do the fields form in such patterns?
How do they close up? Why do they closeup?
Is is solar plasma?

They're not black you retard

>Why are the spots so dark even with the filters?

If you turn down the brightness on a display, some parts will look black even when they're still emitting light. The sunspots are black because RELATIVELY compared to their surroundings, that's the difference in brightness.

The inside of stars is where the metal elements are created

Are you just being contrarian or do you actually have no grasp of EM fields? Google is your friend, there is a whole field of study aptly named solar physics.

>>gag with your nonsense, you might be able to troll there.

... aaaaaand with that post, I'm done.
This is clearly a troll thread.
Bye, asshole!