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Deep calm: why is the Sun so quiet? | COSMOS magazine

2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more 'blank' Suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days.

Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008. Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, USA.