Thursday, June 30, 2016

A Middle Aged Sun?

(Photo credit YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
The Sun has likely already entered into a new unpredicted long-term phase of its evolution as a hydrogen-burning main sequence star — one characterized by magnetic sputtering indicative of a more quiescent middle-age. What this means for us astro-photographers is that there may be fewer and fewer sunspots and flares.  But I don't think we need to worry yet ...

See Forbes for the complete story.
at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The 'Need' for Infinity

Ultrafinitism , a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insight...