- 2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots. So far this
month, the visible disk of the sun has had spots 67% of the time, a sharp
increase compared to the annual average. Furthermore, all six of December's
sunspot groups have been members of new Solar Cycle 24. These numbers could
herald the sun's awakening from the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century
and a livelier sun in 2010.
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- http://www.spaceweather.com
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