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butterfly diagram
noun
- astronomy a graphical butterfly-shaped representation of the sunspot density on the solar disc in the 11-year sunspot cycle
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The Maunders are also well known for the butterfly diagram, which shows how the number of sunspots varies with time, and the Maunder Minimum, a period in the 17th Century when sunspots all but disappeared.
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