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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz.Got a minute?
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2 .Every 11 years, the sun's magnetic activity ramps up, sometimes to a frenzy, causing large sunspots and strong flares.
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3 .Right now we should be in the middle of such a solar maximum.
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4 .But we've yet to see the expected level of activity.
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5 .In fact, this latest solar max has been a bit of a dud.
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6 ."Compared to say the five or six previous cycles, this is really weak."
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7 .That's astronomer Sarbani Basu of Yale University, at the 224th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boston on June 3rd.
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8 ."And then when we went back and started comparing with whatever little data we had of the previous cycles,
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9 .we realized it may not be that peculiar after all."
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10 .We don't really know yet whether the current cycle is the oddball, or if previous cycles were unusually strong.
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11 .Ground-based telescopes started closely monitoring solar activity only around 60 years ago.
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12 .And high-quality space-based observations go back just a decade, not even a full solar cycle.
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13 .So astronomers are eagerly awaiting what the future can tell us.
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14 ."It's going to be fun the next few years, I'm looking forward to it."
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15 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Space.I'm Clara Moskowitz.
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