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Wild solar vortex erupts as the sun goes crazy near solar maximum
The Sun is now at the most active point in its roughly 11‑year solar cycle, and scientists say the current peak has arrived ...
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A mysterious, 100-year solar cycle may have just restarted — and it could mean decades of dangerous space weather
The unexpected surge of solar activity during the ongoing solar maximum may be tied to a lesser-known, 100-year-long cycle that is just beginning to ramp up again, a new study suggests. If that's true ...
In direct contradiction to the official forecast, a team of scientists led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is predicting that the Sunspot Cycle that started this fall could be ...
The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...
An X7.1 (R3) solar flare erupted from Region 3842 this evening - as seen in this animation (courtesy of jhelioviewer). This was the second strongest flare of Solar ...
The sun covered in hundreds of sunspots in a time-lapse image of June The sun is partying like it's 2002. The number of observed sunspots on our home star last month was the highest for almost 21 ...
The strongest solar flare in half a decade just launched off the sun from the same sunspot group that triggered dazzling auroras last weekend. But don't expect northern lights this time around. When ...
Greetings stargazers. The current sunspot cycle maximum continues to amaze. Several times during the past year, the Aurora ...
It's not likely, but not impossible, we'll see any major activity as we leave the low end of the current sunspot cycle and enter the slow climb to the peak of a new one. That's one of the mysteries of ...
How can 400-year-old sunspot drawings help modern-day scientists with solar cycles? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team ...
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