Sunspots are temporary, dark regions on the sun's surface caused by concentrated magnetic activity, which inhibits the flow ...

Sunspot activity on the Sun has reached its highest level in 23 years, with an average of 215.5 sunspots per day recorded in August 2024, according to Live Science. This surge has far exceeded ...

Deng Linhua from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the temporal variation of the hemispheric distribution of long-term sunspot activity during the ...

The sun is most likely going into hibernation as the latest unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles suggest that we are headed towards a ...

heralding the start of a new 11-year cycle of sunspot activity — resulting in sometimes dramatic space weather that could disrupt communications and power grids here on Earth. The two new ...

Sunspots have long been used by climate skeptics to explain away a rise in global temperatures. They argued that solar activity appeared to trend upwards over the past 300 years, on pace with ...

This study showed that the current episode of high solar activity since about the year 1940 is unique within the last 8000 years. This means that the Sun has produced more sunspots, but also more ...

Sunspots are one way we can track the activity of the Sun. There have been fewer sunspots than usual in recent years, and that may point toward an historic solar minimum. Sunspots are dark patches ...

Sunspots, dark spots on the sun which can span as much as 50,000 miles in diameter, are caused by magnetic storms. The spots indicate areas of increased magnetic activity, which are commonly ...

Caused by fluctuations in the intense magnetic field that surrounds our closest star, sunspot activity increases and decreases on an 11-year cycle. Intense sunspot activity brings with it solar ...