{"id":340,"date":"2025-09-19T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:55:30","slug":"nasa-claims-the-sun-is-waking-up-and-they-have-no-idea-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fasstnews.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"NASA claims the sun is ‘waking up’ and they have no idea why"},"content":{"rendered":"

s ‘waking up’, and it could cause major issues on Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between 1988 and 2008, our sun went through a major slump… although you probably wouldn’t have noticed.<\/p>\n

Its solar wind, which is basically a never-ending blast of charged particles it hurls across the solar system, got noticeably weaker over those 20 years.<\/p>\n

Solar activity follows an 11-year cycle, and its intensity has gradually declined from the 1980s until around 2008, showing a long-term weakening trend over several solar cycles during that period.<\/p>\n

In fact, Solar Cycle 24, which kicked off in 2008, turned out to be the weakest solar cycle since we started watching\u00a0space<\/a>\u00a0weather.<\/p>\n

But since then, the sun’s certainly put its hat on, as\u00a0scientists<\/a>\u00a0measuring solar wind at\u00a0Earth’s<\/a>\u00a0distance – that\u2019s about 93 million miles away – have spotted a pretty dramatic comeback.<\/p>\n

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The Sun has certainly put its hat back on… according to a new study (Getty stock)<\/cite><\/div>\n

From 2008 to 2025, here\u2019s what\u2019s changed: Solar wind speed is up by six percent, density has jumped 26 percent, its temperature has even risen by a sweltering 29 percent, the pressure and energy in the wind are up by 30 to 45 percent, while the sun\u2019s magnetic field has grown by over 30 percent.<\/p>\n

It’s all according to a recent\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n

“All signs were pointing to the sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,\u201d lead author Jamie Jasinski, of\u00a0NASA\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern\u00a0California<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it was a surprise to see that trend reversed. The sun is slowly waking up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The sun is slowly waking up, claims NASA’s Jamie Jasinski (Getty stock)<\/cite><\/div>\n

This uptick in solar activity can have significant effects on Earth, particularly through phenomena like solar flares and coronal mass ejections.<\/p>\n

These events are known to interfere with communication infrastructure – causing radio signal disruptions, satellite damage, GPS inaccuracies, and even large-scale electrical grid disturbances.<\/p>\n

The upside of it is that when the sun ejects high-energy charged particles during such events, they can interact with Earth\u2019s magnetic field and upper atmosphere, triggering beautifully vivid displays of auroras in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.<\/p>\n

Scientists have monitored the\u00a0sun\u2019s activity for centuries<\/a>, with historical records noting a prolonged period of unusual quiet between 1790 and 1830 – one of the most significant anomalies observed to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t really know why the sun went through a 40-year minimum starting in 1790,\u201d Dr Jasinski said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe longer-term trends are a lot less predictable and are something we don\u2019t completely understand yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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