Science
Sun enters new 25-year solar cycle – The West Australian
The sun has begun a new 25-year cycle including more sunspots and eruptions but scientists expect the period to be as calm as the last.
Scientists say the sun has entered a new 25-year cycle and will enter a period marked by more sunspots and eruptions.
The sun’s activity has been ramping up over the past nine months as it moves out of a minimum period of activity, experts from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) say.
The sun alternates between 11-year periods of higher and lower activity and the star passed its lowest point of activity in December 2019.
However, the next 25-year solar cycle is like…
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