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  • Sun's Current Solar Activity Cycle Is Weakest in a Century

    12/13/2013 6:44:59 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 29 replies
    space.com ^ | | December 11, 2013 06:50pm ET | Mike Wall, Senior Writer
    This still from a video taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Aug. 8, 2011 solar flare as it appeared in the ultraviolet range of the light spectrum. The flare registered as an X6.9 class sun storm, the largest of the Solar Cycle 24. Credit: NASA/SDO/GSFC SAN FRANCISCO — The sun's current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years, scientists say. Our star is now at "solar maximum," the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max is weak, and the overall current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, conjures up comparisons to...