Tag: Maunder minimum

A new study has identified a nearby star whose sunspot cycles appear to have stopped. Studying this star might help explain the period from the mid 1600s to the early 1700s when our sun paused its sunspot cycles. This image depicts a typical 11-year cycle on the sun, with the fewest sunspots appearing at its minimum (top left and top right) and the most appearing at its maximum (center). Credit: NASA

Nearby Star Could Explain Why Our Sun Didn’t Have Sunspots For 70 Years

MessageToEagle.com | March 25, 2022

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year period when

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