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THE TERMINATION EVENT: Something big may be about to happen on the sun.
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"We call it the Termination Event,"
says Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),
"and it's very, very close to happening."
If you've never heard of the Termination Event, you're not alone. Many researchers have never heard of it either. It's a relatively new idea in solar physics championed by McIntosh and colleague Bob Leamon of the University of Maryland - Baltimore County. According to the two scientists, vast bands of magnetism are drifting across the surface of the sun. When oppositely-charged bands collide at the equator, they annihilate (or "terminate"). There's no explosion; this is magnetism, not anti-matter. Nevertheless, the Termination Event is a big deal. It can kickstart the next solar cycle into a higher gear.
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