Less than three months after forecasters announced the beginning of a new solar cycle (cycle 24), that has been changed. Solar Cycle 23 is still kicking. Last week, three sunspots appeared and their magnetic polarity says they are all old cycle spots.
NASA has converted years of satellite data on Earth s magnetosphere into eerie sound clips that can be used by citizen scientists to help make new discoveries.
On March 29, 2023, the Sun erupted in a massive X-class flare, the seventh one this year and one of the most intense types of solar flares. The flare came