Saturday, December 14, 2013

Mystery: Sun Grows Strangely Quiet, Lowest Activity In 100 Years

December 14, 2013 – SPACE — The sun’s current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years, scientists say. Our star is now at “solar maximum,” the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max is weak, and the overall current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, conjures up comparisons to the famously feeble Solar Cycle 14 in the early 1900s, researchers said. “None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle.



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