2 11, 2024

How has the Sun’s energy changed over the last 45 years?

By |2024-11-02T09:22:44+01:002 November 2024|News|Comments Off on How has the Sun’s energy changed over the last 45 years?

For centuries, it has been known that the Sun goes through subtle and not-so-subtle changes over time. For instance, when Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope at the Sun, he discovered that the Sun is imperfect and often blotched by dark areas known as sunspots. We now know that sunspots are very large features [...]

24 07, 2021

Can we predict long-term solar variability?

By |2021-07-24T14:06:41+02:0024 July 2021|News, USA|Comments Off on Can we predict long-term solar variability?

By Andy May This post is a result of an online conversation with Dr. Leif Svalgaard, a research physicist at Stanford University. Leif knows a great deal about the Sun and solar variability and can explain it clearly. Our disagreement is over whether long-term solar variations could be large enough to affect Earth’s climate [...]