Two different types of sunspots are found on the sun s' surface amid solar cycle change

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Two different types of sunspots are found on the sun s' surface amid solar cycle change
Sun is the potential center of our solar system and any phenomenon occurring on it affects our planet too. One of those is the sunspots which basically represent the influence of magnetism over the sun. There appear spots on the photosphere (sun's visible surface) which depends upon the number of factors. Also, solar activity relies on these sunspots to a great extent and they are even found to release enormous bursts of light or charged particles. 
It is found that there are two types of sunspots observed on the sun's surface amid solar cycle change.  The period in which the sun is least active is described by using the term solar minimum whereas the sun is most active during the solar maximum phase. It takes around 11 years for the cycle to get complete, which features a solar minimum between the two solar maximums, I.e. sun being highly active then shifting towards the low activity side and again gets back to being active. 
The sun's surface pockmarked by cooler dark regions represents the sunspots. There is a kind of overlap of these regions being observed just at the end of one cycle and at the beginning of another. At this time, the previous cycle fades and the new cycle initiates giving rise to two kinds of sunspots or active regions. These two spots are found to be seen in a pattern resembling a butterfly which results in the migration of sunspots from middle latitudes to the equator. 
The smudging of two spots that occur at the end of solar minimum and the start of solar maximum is something which we are witnessing now. This is the reason why, the butterfly pattern, popularly called as the butterfly diagram by the scientist, is probably the best time to study the activity of the sun. Researchers are dwelling into making predictions about the behavior of the sun in the future years, some of which might be accurate to a certain level but could not find proper justification as yet.

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