Maverick astrophysicist calls for unusually intense solar cycle, straying from consensus view
Maverick astrophysicist calls for unusually intense solar cycle, straying from consensus view Matthew Cappucci, The Washington Post Dec. 19, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captures sunspots in February 2013.NASA/SDO/AIA/HMI/Goddard Space Flight Center. When the chips are down and a big storm is brewing on Earth, odds are that forecasters are predicting close to the same thing. But when it comes to space weather and storms that flare up on the surface of the sun, that's not always the case. The sun has begun a new 11-year cycle, and scientists have very different ...
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