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 ...

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

Every 11 years or so, the sun experiences periods of low and high solar activity, which is associated with the amount of sunspots on its surface. These dark regions, some of which can reach the ...

The agencies that track sunspot activity say we’re now in peak solar activity, which has a big impact on the amount and southward extent of the Northern Lights. On Oct. 15, 2024 NOAA ...

One way to track the waxing and waning activity is by counting the number of temporary dark blotches on the sun’s surface, called sunspots. Sunspots make up “active regions” on the sun ...

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 ...

Advanced image restoration techniques have produced reconstructed views of the sun with an 8K image resolution for the first time.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Sunspots are planet-sized regions on the sun’s surface that have increased magnetic ...

But at this point, with several years of sunspot activity having nearly eliminated the star’s magnetic poles, a reversal is on the horizon. “The sun is quite active right now,” says Sanjay ...

With solar sunspot activity soaring and naked-eye sunspots on the rise, I wondered if these natural solar projections would provide crisp enough images to display naked-eye sunspots. Turns out ...