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"Few detailed sunspot records exist before the invention of the telescope. This matters when we want to understand "grand minima" when sunspots (nearly) disappear for years. My latest for Eos involves Kepler's sunspot drawings, tree rings, and the messiness of science: 🧪🔭"
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"Kepler’s Drawings Might Reveal When the Sunspots Disappeared - Eos"
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"Johannes Kepler’s landmark 1607 sunspot observations may have been made at the end of the solar cycle, helping constrain the start of the Maunder Minimum."
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