_{Solar image credit: SIDC, RWC Belgium,                         
World Data Center for the Sunspot Index,
Royal Observatory of Belgium, `May 2003 Image'.}

The Latest News on Solar Cycle 24
April 1 2009
Solar Cycle Takes a Dive - the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century
There were no sunspots observed on 266 out of 366 days during 2008 (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. Thus its was thought that 2008 was the low. However, sunspot counts for (early) 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

Full NASA article here: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm?list1308657

The Solar Cycle

In this section: Learn about our new Solar Cycle #24; our last Solar Cycle #23; about Solar Cycles in general, and about our changing interstellar environment.


<sub>A Solar Filament on the Sun
Image & Caption Credit: Earth-orbiting TRACE satellite, NASA

"Hot gas frequently erupts from the Sun. One such eruption produced the glowing filament pictured above, which was captured in 2000 July by the Earth-orbiting TRACE satellite. The filament, although small compared to the overall size of the Sun, measures over 100,000 kilometers in height, so that the entire Earth could easily fit into its outstretched arms. Gas in the filament is funneled by the complex and changing magnetic field of the Sun. After lifting off from the Sun's surface, most of the filamentary gas will eventually fall back. More powerful solar eruptions emit particles that reach the Earth and can disrupt manmade satellites. The cause and nature of solar eruptions are the topic of much research."</sub>


Solar Cycle 24 Predictions
January 14 2008 Press Release European Space Agency (ESA)
The New Solar Cycle Starts with a ‘Bang’

"The appearance of a very special solar spot on the sun surface a few days ago, signalled to scientists around the world that a new solar cycle had begun. This solar spot also produced two solar blasts.

Each solar cycle lasts an average of 11.1 years. The new solar cycle, called ‘Cycle 24’, started on 4 January this year, when SOHO observed an event scientists have been anticipating for about a year."

Excerpt from:http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMT1J3MDAF_index_0.html

January 14 2008 Press Release NASA
Solar Cycle 24 Begins
Solar Cycle 24 began on Jan 3-4, 2008 with the observance of a magnetically reversed solar flare. This solar flare marks the start of the upswing of solar activity, and thus it also marks the start of our next "Solar Cycle."

"During the low point of solar activity, a magnetically reversed solar flare occurs, which marks the start of a new solar cycle. The cycle then culminates as a full solar magnetic field reversal occurs at the peak of solar activity, which also marks the peak of the solar cycle. last solar magnetic field reversal occurred in Feb of 2001 marking the peak of our previous Solar Cycle #23.

During the lull in solar activity, a magnetic stir was observed in the Sun's magnetic field on Dec 11, 2007, with the potential to produce a magnetically reversed solar flare. The magnetic stir did coalesce into a sun spot that produced a magnetically reversed flare on Jan 3, 2008 marking the start of Solar Cycle #24."

Excerpt from: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/14dec_excitement.htm

December 2008
A Giant Breach in Earth's Magnetic Field
"NASA's five THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a breach in Earth's magnetic field ten times larger than anything previously thought to exist. Solar wind can flow in through the opening to "load up" the magnetosphere for powerful geomagnetic storms....

...This could result in stronger geomagnetic storms than we have seen in many years."

Above excerpt from Science@NASA. Full Article:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/16dec_giantbreach.htm

"Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth"
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/30oct_ftes.htm

April 1 2009
Solar Cycle Takes a Dive - the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century
There were no sunspots observed on 266 out of 366 days during 2008 (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. Thus its was thought that 2008 was the low. However, sunspot counts for (early) 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).


_{* Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA) & NASA}



Solar cycles and their activity play an intimate part in the unfoldment of human consciousness. Solar flares affect the Central Nervous System (stomach lining), all brain activity (including equilibrium), all human and animal behavior and all psychophysiological (mental-emotional-physical) response.

Solar flares can cause us to be nervous, anxious, worrisome, jittery, irritable, lethargic, have short term memory loss, feel nauseous, queasy, have prolonged head pressure or head aches, have trouble with the radio, phone, Internet, computers, and all forms of communication--both human and technological.

Solar activity, although dramatic, catalyzes, and is essential for our evolutionary process by stimulating radical change and transformation in the organizational foundation of matter, energy and consciousness. Solar activity plays an intimate role along with the dynamic transition in Earth's precessional Cycle the Holy Cross which occurred around 2000 A.D. and which began the "time of change" in Earth's ~25,000-year "Evolutoniary Cycle of the Soul." Solar flare activity (and other star explosions, like supernovas) are the primary catalysts that stimulate a renaissance in consciousness. They provide the cosmic impulse that supports the evolutionary maturation of the incarnate soul--the illumination of consciousness that we all seek.

To participate together in mutual acceptance of all that we have been and in celebration of all that we are becoming is to take hold of this evolutionary opportunity and graduate into the majesty of our Divine Destiny.

Remember, solar activity illuminates consciousness, dissolving duality's paradox - the fear and judgment based monsters within are consumed in Light - old patterns of behavior vanish, while true elegance and majesty of self emerges.

Unconditional Love banishes Fear - a choice.
Choose a new octave of participation in harmony and beauty,
above the raging tempest of the old world.

NOAA's Sun Spot Graph (shown below) is updated monthly on
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/


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The 22 year Duplex Cycle
Solar Cycle 24 is but the first half of the 22-year solar duplex cycle called the "Hale Cycle." Solar Cycle 25, which is expected to start around 2018-2020 and to peak around 2023-2024, will create the second half of our new 22-year Hale Cycle.

Our previous solar cycle, #23, began in October of 1996. The climb from a sunspot minimum to a sunspot maximum takes approximately four years. The decline from maximum to minimum takes approximately seven years. A typical solar cycle is eleven years. The peak lasts from 2 to 4 years, The cycles as measured from minimum to minimum range from 9 to 14 years.


The odd numbered cycles tend to be more intense than their preceding even numbered cycles, and the general trend of cycle amplitudes is also increasing. This suggested that cycle #23 might have exceeded cycle 22, the third largest in recorded history, which peaked in 1989, and could have been larger than cycle #19, which was the largest in recorded history and which peaked in 1957-8, however, cycle #23 was not a record setter. Cycles 22 and 23 together created our previous 22-year Hale Cycle.

Also note that there is a difference between the rate of sunspots occurring and the intensity of any specific solar flare emerging from the sun.



_{Graph: Jan Alvestad / Data from Sunspot Index Data Center in Brussels}

A solar cycle begins during the decline of the previous cycle. The minimum level of solar activity between cycles 22 and 23 occurred in May of 1996. Solar cycle # 23 began in 1996 (not shown in the graph below).


_{Graph: NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA}

Our Sun's Changing Interstellar Environment
Let us also recognize that our sun (and our entire solar system), encapsulated in its protective womb (heliosphere), is traveling through a continually changing interstellar environment quite rapidly. (The sun speeds at approximately 8,200 miles per minute through interstellar space, currently toward a point in the heavens called the "Solar Apex" near the Vega star system. This does not imply our Sun's path is a straight line, it only indicates our Sun's current direction of movement.) Changes encountered in the interstellar environment (such as in its charge density) may also have a tremendous effect upon our entire star system and in the evolutionary changes in store for us. Strong evidence from the Russian Academy of Sciences (Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev 1997) suggests our entire helioshpere, is being highly charged because of exactly this, effecting not only Earth, but all of the planets in our solar system, in an irreversible way. Dr. Dmitriev suggests that this is a primary cause of many of the physical changes we are experiencing such as in global warming, ozone distribution levels, and the occurrence of luminous atmospheric phenomena (rather than being caused by man’s environmental tampering). Thus, the effect of our current precessional (Holy Cross) transition may nest within greater interstellar changes as well. It is interesting to note that Dr. Dmitriev also states that there is probability that we may be moving into a rapid temperature instability period like the one that occurred about 10,000 years ago--curiously the time around the last erect Holy Cross, the 90° point in Earth's precessional cycle.




http://www.lunarplanner.com/SolarCycles.html

i found smth very informative on this topic

Nassim Haramein - 1a Parte (2 de 25)
Nassim Haramein - 1a Parte (2 de 25)
there are 2 big part of lectures, 25 pieces in each one
topic of the sun is covered in 2nd part mostly