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. So we will learn
something," Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University told reporters here
today (Dec. 11) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical
Union. [SPACE] |
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