{"id":12723,"date":"2016-06-04T18:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12723"},"modified":"2016-06-04T18:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T22:45:56","slug":"the-sun-goes-spotless-as-it-falls-towards-a-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12723","title":{"rendered":"The Sun goes spotless as it falls towards a Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sun has gone spotless as it enters the less active phase of the solar cycle:\u00a0Vanishing Sunspots – Spaceweather.com – June.4.2016<\/a>\u00a0–<\/p>\n

Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. Between now and then, there will be lots of spotless suns. At first, the blank stretches will be measured in days; later in weeks and months. Don’t expect space weather to grow quiet, however. Solar Minimum brings many interesting changes. For instance, as the extreme ultraviolet output of the sun decreases, the upper atmosphere of Earth cools and collapses. This allows space junk to accumulate around our planet. Also, the heliosphere shrinks, bringing interstellar space closer to Earth. Galactic cosmic rays penetrate the inner solar system with relative ease. Indeed, a cosmic ray surge<\/a>\u00a0is already underway. Goodbye sunspots, hello deep-space radiation!<\/em><\/p>\n

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The average number of sunspots has been dropping steadily for months:<\/p>\n

\"ISES<\/a><\/p>\n

Watch the changing Sun on the\u00a0HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sun has gone spotless as it enters the less active phase of the solar cycle:\u00a0Vanishing Sunspots – Spaceweather.com – June.4.2016\u00a0– Forecasters expect the next Solar Minimum to arrive in 2019-2020. Between now and then, there will be lots of spotless suns. At first, the blank stretches will be measured in days; later in weeks … Continue reading The Sun goes spotless as it falls towards a Minimum<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3jd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15065,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15065","url_meta":{"origin":12723,"position":0},"title":"No spots but the Sun is stormy nonetheless","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The sun has gone spotless for the past seven days:\u00a0Spaceweather.com - Oct.15.2017. 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