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The ‘Maunder Minimum' is the name given to the period from 1645 to 1715 when the number of sunspots – ‘storms' on the sun – became almost zero. The period is named after the solar astronomer Edward ...
NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be "waking up" from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of ...
Solar activity is likely to be on the decline all the way to 2030, which will mark the end of Solar Cycle 25.
NASA has drafted its Mars rover Perseverance to help monitor the sun’s activity. Every day for the next two months, the rover will image the sun with its Mastcam-Z cameras, capturing crucial ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Sun seems like a perfectly reliable, unchanging presence in the daytime sky, but it’s not. Intense heat and pressure in its ...