<font size="3"><strong><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#000000"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Boas,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Novas SSN estão á espreita...</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">... mas não façam muito alarido pois podem espantá-las... shhhhh....<br><br><br><br><br>Cumprimentos<br><br>Salomão Fresco<br>CT2IRJ<br></span></font></font></font><br>
SOLAR CYCLE PREDICTION:
</font></strong></font>An international panel of experts says Solar
Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.
Get the <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm">full
story</a> from Science@NASA.
<p><font size="3"><strong><font color="#ff0000"> NEW-CYCLE SUNSPOT:
</font></strong></font>"Solar activity is heating up!"
says Robert Arnold of Scotland. Just hours ago from his observatory
on the Isle of Skye, he snapped this photo of a prominence and a
new sunspot emerging near the sun's northeastern limb: </p>
<p align="center"><a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/01jun09/Robert-Arnold1.jpg?PHPSESSID=0r64i783bev93s9oighm8ot1f2"><img src="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/01jun09/Robert-Arnold1_strip.jpg" border="1" width="360" height="334"></a></p>
<p>The sunspot, numbered 1019, in growing rapidly as shown in <a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/01jun09/1019_anim.gif?PHPSESSID=0r64i783bev93s9oighm8ot1f2">this
movie</a> from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory. The high
latitude and magnetic polarity of the spot identify it as a member
of new <a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/29may_noaaprediction.htm">Solar
Cycle 24</a>. Readers , if you have a <a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/xtra/results_solar_telescopes.php?searchTerm=personal%20solar%20telescope">solar
telescope</a>, train it on the sun and watch sunspot genesis in
action.</p>