The planets might control the sun’s activity – and it’s not astrology

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By Leah Crane

The ability of planetary alignments is in general reserved for unscientific horoscopes, but it turns out they’d receive some importance after all. The sun has an 11-year cycle of project, and it can also be shepherded by alignments of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter.

The sun’s cycle contains diversifications in the number of sunspots, the entire vitality it emits, and the construction of its magnetic subject. Since the cycle was first show in 1843, researchers receive struggled to realise what determines its dimension and periodic nature.

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