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What you need to know about the Solar Maximum 2025
Did you know our sun operates on a natural 11 year cycle, alternating between high and low magnetic activity?
In October 2024, U.S space agencies such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the sun had reached its solar maximum phase and would continue into 2025.
However, has the maximum phase already peaked or will it do so later in the year?
To find out the answer as well as learning from past solar storm activity, 4ZZZ’s Toni Pankaluic spoke with Dr Benjamin Pope, an Associate Professor of Statistical Data Science at Macquarie University to find out more.
For a deep dive...
If you could buy/access a solar telescope equipped with filters during the Solar Maximum 2025, you'll enjoy the sun's beautiful surface features and sunspots. Otherwise during the minimum phase years from now, the sun becomes featureless. Do note, avoid what Galileo once did by using a normal telescope to see the sun... as your eyes will burn!
Image Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Toni Pankaluic
Toni Pankaluic is a Journalist and contributor to Brisbane Line
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