Gustav Spörer
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Gustav Spörer
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Friederich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer was a German astronomer. He is noted for his studies of sunspots and sunspot cycles. In this regard he is often mentioned together with Edward Maunder. Spörer was the first to note a prolonged period of low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1715. This period is known as the Maunder Minimum. Spörer was a contemporary of Richard Christopher Carrington, an English astronomer. Carrington is generally credited with discovering Spörer's law, which governs the variation of
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German astronomer (1822-1895)
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2022-01-26T15:36:03Z
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