The Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

Unlike the familiar 11-year sunspot cycle, the CGC spans 80 to 100 years and is believed to regulate broader shifts in the ...

Has solar maximum already come and gone? Perhaps not. Looking back to the first solar cycle graph shown in this article, we see that Solar Cycle 24 had two peaks — one in 2012, and a second in 2014.

We know that the sun has entered its peak phase of activity, called solar maximum. But are we still in it, or is solar maximum already behind us? Let's see what the data has to say. Although we ...