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Solar activity follows an 11‑year cycle – here’s how it controls eruptions and solar flares

When you look up at the sky on a sunny day, the Sun might seem like a bright spot, unchanging in the sky. But the Sun is a complex, dynamic celestial body, wrapped in electrical currents and magnetic ...
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Forty years of solar data finds our Sun is changing from the inside out

The Sun’s 11-year cycle still drives flares, aurorae, and geomagnetic storms, but the machinery under that familiar rhythm may be changing in a deeper way. After tracking sound waves inside the Sun ...
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Forget the 11-year solar cycle, a single space storm can send a shockwave through your local forecast

The regular solar cycle is a mere climate murmur, but sudden geomagnetic jolts are a different story. These high-altitude outbursts appear to be hijacking the polar vortex to rewrite weather on the ...
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Solar activity follows an 11-year cycle – here’s how it controls eruptions and solar flares

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yeimy J. Rivera, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) When you look up at the ...