Comments on: The first sunspots of the next solar cycle https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-first-sunspots-of-the-next-solar-cycle/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:37:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Garry https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-first-sunspots-of-the-next-solar-cycle/#comment-1049855 Sun, 29 Apr 2018 00:37:04 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51191#comment-1049855 There’s an interesting article posted at Watts Up With That about the solar minimum, the history of recorded solar cycles, etc. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/28/solar-activity-flatlines-weakest-solar-cycle-in-200-years/

]]> By: Localfluff https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-first-sunspots-of-the-next-solar-cycle/#comment-1048615 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 20:31:13 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51191#comment-1048615 Parker Solar Probe PSP has luck with timing. It will be launched in August, at the minimum and when a new cycle probably starts. It will go closer and closer to the Sun until 2025 (planned), so it will experience most of an entire cycle from start.

Besides PSP and TESS, also Mars Insight (in May) and CHEOPS (in December) will launch this year, and all four spacecrafts will give science return within half a year from launch. A big year for space based science. ESA’s and Switzerland’s CHEOPS will from LEO study a select set of known transiting (super Earth) exoplanets with masses well determined with Doppler from the ground, to nail their sizes much more exactly. It has a cost cap of only €50 million! TESS cost only about $200 million including launch and will revolutionize exoplanet science beginning this Summer. Just 1% of one years NASA budget.

]]> By: Willi https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-first-sunspots-of-the-next-solar-cycle/#comment-1048244 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 23:10:41 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51191#comment-1048244 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WIt1a15pxA

]]> By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-first-sunspots-of-the-next-solar-cycle/#comment-1048203 Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:17:56 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=51191#comment-1048203 Zimmerman,
Your professional analysis and speculation as to possible futures has generated nearly 500 comments on that topic! Making a difference must really feel good.

Did you notice the article after “first sunspots”?
A Hubble telescope picture of a Einstein ring as it should look that fits the theory of gravitational lensing as a “distortion of light” . It gives me hope that real science by real scientist can be performed without an agenda.
There are even appropriate gaps in the ring were other galaxies have interfered with the light! Very exciting.

Any thoughts as to what is causing the hot plasma that is circling the north called S.T.E.V.E.? Has the plasma storm taken out any satellites? Is it’s rare reoccurrence linked to the solar cycle?

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