Sunspot Activity Recorded
BOULDER (Colorado), April 4. The last week-end might have been one of the greatest periods of sunspot activity observed since 1612, the year in which Galileo began watching the surface of the sun, according to reports received at Boulder. During the week-end a special “world interval’’ called by the International Geophysical Year focused scientific, instruments on the sun and the earth’s environment. preliminary reports at Boulder to the National Bureau of Standards and the high altitude observatory of the University of Colorado suggested that solar activity was nearly as great as in the earlier “peak period” of September, 1957. Observers reported 'an extraordinary number of flares.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28553, 5 April 1958, Page 4
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