• Thumbnail for Solar cycle
    The solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity...
    89 KB (10,014 words) - 10:42, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 25
    Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with...
    60 KB (2,964 words) - 20:11, 13 October 2024
  • Solar cycles are nearly periodic 11-year changes in the Sun's activity that are based on the number of sunspots present on the Sun's surface. The first...
    17 KB (801 words) - 08:46, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 24
    Solar cycle 24 is the most recently completed solar cycle, the 24th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in...
    67 KB (5,752 words) - 08:56, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 10
    Solar cycle 10 was the tenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.3 years, beginning...
    4 KB (323 words) - 02:47, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 23
    Solar cycle 23 was the 23rd solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 12.3 years, beginning...
    5 KB (522 words) - 18:25, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 19
    Solar cycle 19 was the nineteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.5 years...
    4 KB (322 words) - 18:23, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar maximum
    Solar maximum is the regular period of greatest solar activity during the Sun's 11-year solar cycle. During solar maximum, large numbers of sunspots appear...
    6 KB (569 words) - 19:28, 10 June 2024
  • The solar cycle is a 28-year cycle of the Julian calendar, and 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar with respect to the week. It occurs because leap...
    3 KB (343 words) - 17:11, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 22
    Solar cycle 22 was the 22nd solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 9.9 years, beginning...
    9 KB (944 words) - 06:59, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 20
    Solar cycle 20 was the twentieth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.4 years, beginning...
    5 KB (439 words) - 18:33, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 21
    Solar cycle 21 was the 21st solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.5 years, beginning...
    3 KB (222 words) - 23:11, 20 August 2022
  • Solar cycle 17 was the seventeenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.4 years...
    3 KB (234 words) - 18:22, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 1
    Solar cycle 1 was the first solar cycle during which extensive recording of solar sunspot activity took place. The solar cycle lasted 11.3 years, beginning...
    2 KB (239 words) - 03:59, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 14
    Solar cycle 14 was the fourteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.5 years...
    3 KB (210 words) - 18:21, 16 August 2022
  • Solar cycle 18 was the eighteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.2 years...
    3 KB (260 words) - 18:22, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 12
    Solar cycle 12 was the twelfth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.3 years, beginning...
    3 KB (215 words) - 18:20, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 13
    Solar cycle 13 was the thirteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.8 years...
    3 KB (254 words) - 22:58, 29 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for May 2024 solar storms
    geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. The geomagnetic storm was the most powerful to affect Earth since...
    49 KB (3,604 words) - 17:45, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 15
    Solar cycle 15 was the fifteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.1 years, beginning...
    3 KB (308 words) - 18:36, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 16
    Solar cycle 16 was the sixteenth solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 10.1 years, beginning...
    3 KB (206 words) - 14:27, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar cycle 11
    Solar cycle 11 was the eleventh solar cycle since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. The solar cycle lasted 11.8 years, beginning...
    3 KB (205 words) - 18:20, 16 August 2022
  • Thumbnail for Solar activity and climate
    over the ~11 years of the solar cycle, but that its average value has been stable since the measurements started in 1978. Solar irradiance before the 1970s...
    71 KB (7,633 words) - 21:19, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Carrington Event
    geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking on 1–2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally and...
    46 KB (4,724 words) - 14:43, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar constant
    being 1.361 kilowatts per square meter (kW/m2) at solar minimum (the time in the 11-year solar cycle when the number of sunspots is minimal) and approximately...
    13 KB (1,763 words) - 18:51, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sun
    Sun (redirect from Solar diameter)
    do appear are at high solar latitudes. As the solar cycle progresses toward its maximum, sunspots tend to form closer to the solar equator, a phenomenon...
    167 KB (18,910 words) - 14:56, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of solar storms
    Solar flare § Soft X-ray classification). The following table lists the largest flares in this respect since June 1996, the beginning of solar cycle 23...
    56 KB (4,632 words) - 09:51, 12 October 2024
  • transient disturbance in the solar wind Solar cycle, an 11-year cycle of sunspot activity Solar cycle 25, the current cycle Solar prominence, a plasma and...
    2 KB (276 words) - 17:25, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2003 Halloween solar storms
    The Halloween solar storms were a series of solar storms involving solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occurred from mid-October to early November...
    6 KB (524 words) - 08:30, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Solar core
    eventually result in one He nucleus, is called the CNO cycle and generates less than 10% of the total solar energy. This involves carbon atoms which are not...
    14 KB (1,894 words) - 21:58, 8 September 2024