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The John Batchelor Show / PREVIEW FOR LATER Bob Zimmerman discusses the mysterious dynamo driving the sun’s eleven-year sunspot cycle. New research suggests its location is 125,000 miles deep, though the mechanics of magnetic polarity flips remain largely misunderstood today. GU

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