During these phases, sunspots and solar eruptions are uncommon. At this time, the Sun’s magnetic field is mainly dipolar. Signs of magnetic activity at active latitudes become hard to see.

The Sun's periods of rowdy activity may get all the glory, but even in its quieter times, our home star can subtly reshape ...

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This split image shows the difference between an active Sun during solar maximum (on the left, captured in April 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (on the right, captured in December 2019).

New study reveals that even small differences in solar magnetic activity produce detectable changes inside the Sun.

The Sun in ultraviolet, as seen by the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory, during two periods: one the recent solar minimum in around 2019, and the solar maximum that preceded it, when the Sun was much ...