solar cycle
Living with a Capricious Star: What Drives the Solar Cycle?
You can be thankful that we bask in the glow of a relatively placid star. Currently about halfway along its…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
A New Marker Might Better Track the Solar Cycle
Approximately every 11 years the Sun becomes violently active, putting on a show of magnetic activity for aurora watchers and…
Is the Sun More Active Than it Looks? An Innovative Method to Characterize the Solar Cycle
The Sun has provided no shortage of mysteries thus far during solar cycle #24. And perhaps the biggest news story…
Solar Cycle #24: On Track to be the Weakest in 100 Years
Our nearest star has exhibited some schizophrenic behavior thus far for 2013. By all rights, we should be in the…
Happy (or is it Merry?) Aphelion This Friday
This 4th of July weekend brings us one more reason to celebrate. On July 5th at approximately 11:00 AM EDT/15:00…
“Cool” Gas May Be At The Root Of Sunspots
[/caption] Although well over 40 years old, the Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, New Mexico isn't going to be looking…
The Sun’s Conveyor Belt May Lengthen Solar Cycles
[/caption] The Sun seems to finally be waking up in earnest from the long slumber of the past cycle. Solar…
Researchers Say Sun Cycle Alters Earth’s Climate
[/caption] If the energy from the sun varies by only 0.1 percent during the 11-year solar cycle, could such a…