India, June 5 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
The Kodaikanal solar observatory, known for the oldest continuous series of solar data collected in India, have helped uncover how giant convection patterns on the Sun respond to solar activity, providing insights for future solar cycle prediction.
Much like a boiling pot of water on a stove, the energy generated within the Sun is transported through its outer layers via convection. Convective cells lead to the formation of small-scale granulations and large scale supergranulations as a network structure on the solar surface.
The network cells have an average lifetime of 24 hr, and a size of about 30,000 km., The width of the cooler intergranular lanes is about 6000 km. What ...