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Photo Credit: NASA/TRACE From Physorg.com: (PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is stea...

From Watts Up With That? With Climategate sucking all the oxygen out of the blogosphere, we’ve neglected some of our regular reporting dutie...

Charlie Perry, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Lawrence, sifts through graphs of data in explaining why he believe...

From L.A. Times: Recent studies seem to show that there's more to climate change than we know. Assuming there are no sunspots today, a 9...

From The BBC: A study has shown how sunspots could affect climate in the Pacific. Writing in the journal Science, the international team det...

Image from NASA From Nature News: Variations in the Sun's brightness may have a big role in Pacific precipitation. Computer simulations ...

SUN GAZING These photos show sunspots near solar maximum on July 19, 2000, and near solar minimum on March 18, 2009. Some global warming ske...

The interface between a sunspot's umbra (dark center) and penumbra (lighter outer region) shows a complex structure with narrow, almost ...

From Watts Up With That: NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming Report indicates solar cycle has been im...

From NASA: May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next sola...

This is an image of the sun from NASA's twin STEREO satellites. Credit: NASA From Physorg.: PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of ex...

The sun is thought to have reached the lowest point in its activity in December 2008, but the new solar cycle has gotten off to a slow start...

The disappearance of sunspots happens every few years, but this time it's gone on far longer than anyone expected - and there is no sign...

Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 (l), but not this year (r) From The BBC: The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly...

Above: The sunspot cycle from 1995 to the present. The jagged curve traces actual sunspot counts. Smooth curves are fits to the data and one...

Watts Up With That?: Solar Cycle 24 has ended according to NASA. Yes you read that right. Somebody at NASA can’t even figure out which solar...

Above: The solar cycle, 1995-2015. The "noisy" curve traces measured sunspot numbers; the smoothed curves are predictions. Credit:...

Boston.com published some great pictures of the Sun. The link is HERE .

Table From Watts Up With That NASA: Sun Is “Blankety Blankest” It’s Been In The Space Age -- Watts Up With That? From NASA Science News h/t ...

Solar cycle 23 as seen from SOHO - click for larger image From Watts Up With That? Below is a note forwarded to me by John Sumption from Jan...