sun spot

"It really should be something like 'wrinkle reduction' or 'sun spot reduction' or a combination of those ideas and maybe more. Of course," he says, "it doesn't sound as sexy as 'anti-aging."

The “Farmers’ Almanac” uses a mathematical and astronomical formula, created in 1818 when it was founded, that takes into consideration things like sun spot activity and tidal action of the moon to make its long term weather predictions.

In another surprising cross-pollination, “Haven” hangs across from “Sun Spot,” a maelstrom of abstraction painted by Helen Frankenthaler, in 1954, in umber, russet, and black.

Eric Toops took this striking image of the sun's edge, complete with a sun spot.

“I’ll ask somebody, ‘What’s going on with this?’ and they’ll say, ‘That’s my sun spot,’” he said.