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NASA said the sun is expected to reach the peak of Solar Cycle 25 in 2025. By then sunspots located in regions of intense magnetic activity should increase, according to the NOAA.
Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number of 1.8. [ 2 ]
The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international scientific group sponsored by NASA and NOAA that forecasts sunspot activity, forecast in 2019 that the coming year would be below-average ...
‘Significant change’ in Sun’s activity may come as good news for sky watchers ahead of next year’s solar eclipse
The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. The geomagnetic storm was the most powerful to affect Earth since March 1989 , [ a ] and produced aurorae at far more equatorial latitudes than usual in both ...
The sun is nearing its solar cycle peak The sun is becoming more active as it nears the peak of its current 11-year solar cycle, which began in 2019, according to NASA ,
Following is a comparison of the growth of cycle 25 versus cycle 24, using the 13-month sunspot averages, beginning with the months of the respective minimums. Numbers in brackets for cycle 25 indicate the minimum possible value for that month, assuming there are no more sunspots between now (Dec 6, 2024) and six months after the end of the ...
A "severe" solar storm could make the northern lights visible in the U.S. farther south than usual while also posing the potential to disrupt modern technology, according to the National Oceanic ...