Aaron Burr - Founding Patriot. I have never known the prejudice in favor of birth, parentage and descent, more conspicuous than in the instance of Col. Burr. That gentleman was connected by blood with many respectable families in New England.
Definition of sunspot for English Language Learners. astronomy : a dark spot that sometimes appears on the surface of the sun. See words that rhyme with sunspot Spanish Central: Translation of sunspot Nglish: Translation of sunspot for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about sunspot.
Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the sun and can be as large as 80, 000 km in diameter. Sunspots are magnetic regions on the sun with magnetic field strengths thousands of times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field, and often appear in pairs that are aligned in an east-west direction.