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A Quiet Interlude in Solar Max

The Sun has been at a lull when many were expecting fierce storms and incessant sunspot activity. Could this be a double-peaked maximum?

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story A Quiet Interlude in Solar Max.

NASA images courtesy Solar Dynamics Observatory and Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager science teams. Sunspot number data from the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. NASA animation by Robert Simmon. Caption adapted from a story by Tony Phillips, Science@NASA.

Published March 6, 2013
Data acquired February 28, 2013