Template:Did you know nominations/Hale's law

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 11:51, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Hale's law

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• ... that sunspot groups in accordance with Hale's law have magnetic fields that align in opposite directions on opposite sides of the Sun's equator? Source: "Hale's law states that bipolar [active regions] that are aligned roughly in the east-west direction have opposite leading magnetic polarities on opposite hemispheres (leading in the sense of solar rotation)." - van Driel-Gesztelyi and Green (2015). "Evolution of Active Regions". Living Reviews in Solar Physics
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  • Comment: Hale's law pertains to solar active regions, the visual manifestation of which are sunspot groups. Since the term sunspot group is less ambiguous, I think it works better in this context.

Improved to Good Article status by CoronalMassAffection (talk). Self-nominated at 10:33, 29 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Hale's law; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• article was recently promoted to GA, is long enough and within policy. Hook is short enough and interesting. QPQ not needed since this is their first nom. CoronalMassAffection, to provide context, I think it would be helpful to link sunspot and magnetic field in the hook. Are you ok with that? « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 20:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

@Gonzo fan2007: Thanks for taking a look at this. I am okay with that. CoronalMassAffection 𝛿 ^talk_contribs 00:04, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 14:12, 20 March 2024 (UTC)