Converse of object

• observe: The number of sunspots observed at any one time varies with an approximate 11 year period, called the Sunspot cycle.

• show: The image shows a sunspot which occured on 18th June 1998.

• see: You should be able to see sunspots on the disk and, if you are lucky, flares around the edge.

• have: But the Sun is still having bigger Sunspots, flares and storms than during the year 2000.

• view: The device may be used at other times to view sunspots.

• include: The movie illustrates the rotation of the Sun as well as the evolution of the Sun's magnetic features - including sunspots.

Preposition: in

• attempt: We here investigate various subsets of the tilt angle data from sunspots in an attempt to reconcile and understand these apparently contradictory results.

Adjective modifier

• large: Nice photo of the large sunspot which is crossing the Sun.

• few: They both reported that only a few ordinary sunspots were on the disk.

• more: As the sunspot cycle progresses, more sunspots appear closer to the Sun's equator.

• dark: These features include the dark sunspots, the bright faculae, and granules.

• observed: Through his telescope Galileo saw craters on the Moon and observed sunspots.

• giant: One of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded erupted this morning near giant sunspot 486.

Modifies a noun

• cycle: The Dresden Codex of the Maya, for instance, contains the secrets of the sunspot cycle.

• count: The proposed mechanism for increased sunspot counts affecting the NAO again involves the stratosphere.

• maximum: During the sunspot maximum, they make the sun look 0.1 % brighter.

• observation: Twenty years later sunspot observation became one of the pillars of solar physics.

• minimum: This method does allow for a prediction of the next sunspot maximum at the time of sunspot minimum.

• activity: There was a period of very low sunspot activity in the latter half of the 17th century called the Maunder Minimum.

Noun used with modifier

• year: Now 25 years is a short time in climate terms, only two complete cycles of the eleven year sunspot oscillation.