Publicatie datum
7 September 2024
The sun is in the news more and more often. We see more solar flares, the northern lights reach as far as the south of France, and large eruptions disrupt satellites.
These are all signs of high solar activity, which is also clearly visible through telescopes. Groups of dark sunspots mark the surface of the sun, and at the edges loops of prominences stick out.
The 2024–2025 season is therefore devoted to the solar cycle. This year we reach the peak of this 11-year cycle, and we are glad to teach our audience a little more about the sun's fluctuation between more and less activity, how that was discovered, and what we notice from it here on Earth.
