Sentences with phrase «spot cycle peaks»
Solar physicists have been looking at trends in sun - spot behavior and characteristics over the past decade and have raised the possibility that when the current sun - spot cycle peaks in the next few months, the sun could enter an unusually long period where it generates few, if any sunspots.
https://www.csmonitor.com/ Not exact matches
This suggests that Tau Ceti has a star - spot cycle that peaked in those years.
It is simply astounding that solar cycle 24 having the least CME's or sun spots, «NASA predicts that solar cycle 24 will peak in early or mid 2013 with about 59 sunspots.
Cycle 24's new smoothed solar maximum peak inched up from 76.0 spots / day to 77.3 spots / day.
Yet according to this study: http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/brightness.shtml «Data collected from radiometers on U.S. and European spacecraft show that the Sun is about 0.07 percent brighter in years of peak sunspot activity, such as around 2000, than when spots are rare (as they are now, at the low end of the 11 - year solar cycle).