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Article: Solar weather; Forecasting of spots seen in near future.(LIFE - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2004
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Byline: Jen Waters, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Richard R. Fisher has studied the sun for almost 40 years. As director of the Sun-Earth Connection Division at NASA in Southwest, Mr. Fisher, who holds a doctorate in astrogeophysics, says a new field of science based on the behavior of the sun will form in coming years.
Similar to how oceanography blossomed after scientists better grasped how the ocean works, Mr. Fisher says, researchers are on the brink of understanding the system of the sun, such as what causes sunspots and solar winds. Once researchers know how the sun operates, they can better predict space weather and how it might affect the Earth or ...