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Another busy month for cycle 25.
July 2, 2023: The sun is partying like it’s 2002. That’s the last time sunspot counts were as high as they are now. The monthly average sunspot number for June 2023 was 163, according to the Royal Observatory of Belgium’s Solar Influences Data Analysis Center. This eclipses every month since Sept. 2002:
Solar Cycle 25 wasn’t expected to be this strong. When it began in Dec. 2019, forecasters believed it would be a weak cycle akin to its immediate predecessor Solar Cycle 24. If that forecast had panned out, Solar Cycle 25 would be one of the weakest solar cycles in a century.
Instead, Solar Cycle 25 has shot past Solar Cycle 24 and may be on pace to rival some of the stronger cycles of the 20th century. The last time sunspot numbers were this high, the sun was on the verge of launching the Great Halloween Storms
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‘Shooting stars’ seen raining down on the sun for the 1st time
4 July 2023
Astronomers have discovered never-before-seen meteor-like fireballs in stunning plasma displays on the sun.
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The findings have revealed that this process can create short but intense brightening and both an upward surge of stellar material and shock waves that reheat the gas in the corona above the impacts.
Scientists think that this discovery could therefore help solve the mystery of why the corona, the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere, is much hotter than the layers of the sun below it, despite solar models predicting the sun should become hotter closer to its core.
https://www.space.com/solar-meteors-seen-for-the-first-time