Noday, July 5th, the sun is blank - no sunspots. White light images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory show no dark cores anywhere on the solar disk -
This marks the 44th day in 2017 without sunspots. It seems that Solar Minimum is approaching. The last time the solar cycle shifted in this way, ~10 years ago, the sun plunged into the deepest Solar Minimum in a century. Between 2008 and 2009, sunspots were absent almost all the time,cosmic rays from deep space penetrated the solar system in record numbers, and Earth's upper atmosphere collapsed. This can happen again.
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