The quiet Sun is much more active than we thought
Solar activity varies in 11-year cycles. As the activity cycle switches to a new one, the Sun is usually very calm for several years. For a long time, researchers have believed that there is not much of interest going on in the Sun during the passive period, therefore not worth studying. Now this assumption is showed to be false by Juha Kallunki, Merja Tornikoski and Irene Bjorklund, resea