Posted on 09/17/2025 8:25:02 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
It looked like the Sun was heading toward a historic lull in activity. That trend flipped in 2008, according to new research.
The Sun has become increasingly active since 2008, a new NASA study shows. Solar activity is known to fluctuate in cycles of 11 years, but there are longer-term variations that can last decades. Case in point: Since the 1980s, the amount of solar activity had been steadily decreasing all the way up to 2008, when solar activity was the weakest on record. At that point, scientists expected the Sun to be entering a period of historically low activity.
But then the Sun reversed course and started to become increasingly active, as documented in the study, which appears in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. It’s a trend that researchers said could lead to an uptick in space weather events, such as solar storms, flares, and coronal mass ejections.
“All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,” said Jamie Jasinski of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, lead author of the new study. “So it was a surprise to see that trend reversed. The Sun is slowly waking up.”
SNIP
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
(The Sun? What is it?)
Do not be concerned...
Bill Gates and the
lovely Greta Thunberg
will take care of this
pesky problem in our
Solar System.
Somehow, this HAS to be the fault
of President Trump.
Just pointing out that the Climate Alarmist models are not worth the digits they are programed with.
Bill Gates will have to accelerate his plans for a huge SPACE UMBRELLA to protect us from the sun….lol.
How much CO2 did it take to make the sun hotter?
When it finally explodes... That will be a big surprise.
Bunch of highly educated people who must not understand that of all the material they know ..it is minuscule compared to what knowledge is out there.
Surprised? Cause you don’t know that much.
Make your announcements very careful and circumscribed.
Always.
400 years out of billions? HUGE sample size...kinda’ nice little pattern there...but...
It might be time to put away the overarching notion that the key to the present, is the past...we may discover new things that override past scientific models..
Thank you.
Captain Obvious
Its called the solar cycle.
Neat-o……..gotta get a Faraday Cage.
Hams are all over this like hair on a gorilla. They have been following the solar cycles since way before I was a kid. In fact, one ham in this Oct issue believes Cycle 25 has peaked and is now decreasing, but, then again, it is not bi-peaked as they usually are, so, it may be more intense than usual.
Stay tuned on QST.
2008? Braking news.
No...but HF radio propagation may be in for a boost!
Hoss
“Experts” wrong again.
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