09.02.2018 - 15:35 [ NewScientist.com ]

Solar activity heads for lowest low in four centuries

(1.November 2013) The sun‘s activity is in free fall, according to a leading space physicist. But don‘t expect a little ice age. „Solar activity is declining very fast at the moment,“ Mike Lockwood, professor of space environmental physics at Reading University, UK, told New Scientist. „We estimate faster than at any time in the last 9300 years.“