The sun covered in hundreds of sunspots in a time-lapse image of June The sun is partying like it's 2002. The number of observed sunspots on our home star last month was the highest for almost 21 ...

May and June 2024 saw the highest sunspot numbers on the sun since 2002, but is the peak of the solar cycle here yet? The sun follows an 11-year solar cycle of increasing and decreasing activity.

The solar cycle continues to ramp up with currently the largest number of sunspots in the last two decades and maybe even longer. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center(SWPC) reports the estimated ...

"Highest monthly average sunspot number since September 2002!" tweeted solar physicist Keith Strong on Sunday. "The June 2023 [sunspot number] was 163.4, the highest value for over 20 years." In ...

A whopping sunspot that is getting larger and crackling with activity threatens to flash powerful solar flares in our planet's direction. The sunspot, named AR3780, appears to be getting bigger and ...

FARGO — The estimated number of dark areas called sunspots on the surface of the sun reached a 20-year high this month at 299. Sunspots are cool areas on the surface of the sun and range in diameter ...

On Aug. 8, NASA scientists may have spotted a record number of sunspots when hundreds of individual spots were estimated to occur within 24 hours. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

We are approaching the peak of the solar cycle. So far the number of sunspots has been tallying up to more than expected. The solar cycle is an 11-year cycle. NOAA states that we started counting ...

The Sunspot Number, the longest scientific experiment still ongoing, is a crucial tool used to study the solar dynamo, space weather and climate change. It has now been recalibrated and shows a ...

A new, rapidly growing sunspot is slowly rotating towards Earth, and it could become a hotspot for solar activity in the coming days. On Friday, solar astronomy website Spaceweather.com reported that ...