MolaKule
Staff member
Quote
One of the big questions in solar physics is why the sun's activity follows a regular cycle of 11 years. Researchers discovered that the tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter influence the Sun's magnetic field, thus governing the solar cycle.
The scientists systematically compared historical observations of solar activity from the last thousand years with planetary constellations, statistically proving that the two phenomena are linked. "There is an astonishingly high level of concordance: what we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles," said Frank Stefani, lead author of the study with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), an independent German research institute. "Everything points to a clocked process...
11-Year Sunspot Cycle
One of the big questions in solar physics is why the sun's activity follows a regular cycle of 11 years. Researchers discovered that the tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter influence the Sun's magnetic field, thus governing the solar cycle.
The scientists systematically compared historical observations of solar activity from the last thousand years with planetary constellations, statistically proving that the two phenomena are linked. "There is an astonishingly high level of concordance: what we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles," said Frank Stefani, lead author of the study with Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), an independent German research institute. "Everything points to a clocked process...
11-Year Sunspot Cycle