{"id":47899,"date":"2025-09-16T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-says-solar-activity-is-increasing-after-decades-long-lull-the-sun-is-slowly-waking-up\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:08:29","slug":"nasa-says-solar-activity-is-increasing-after-decades-long-lull-the-sun-is-slowly-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/nasa-says-solar-activity-is-increasing-after-decades-long-lull-the-sun-is-slowly-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says solar activity is increasing after decades-long lull: &#8220;The sun is slowly waking up&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space weather and technology on Earth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasa-analysis-shows-suns-activity-ramping-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASA announced<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n<p>A new research, conducted by two NASA scientists and published earlier in September in a the peer-reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/adf3a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Astrophysical Journal Letters<\/a>, shows that solar activity has ramped up after 2008 \u2014 an unexpected reversal following a decades-long decline that was initially thought to foreshadow a period of historic inaction on the surface of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All signs were pointing to the Sun going into a prolonged phase of low activity,&#8221; Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the study&#8217;s lead author, said in a statement. &#8220;So it was a surprise to see that trend reversed. The Sun is slowly waking up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An uptick in solar activity could influence space weather, potentially leading to more solar storms,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-x-class-solar-flare-image-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">solar flares<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and coronal mass ejections, the researchers found. Space weather patterns have the potential to directly impact spacecraft operations and the safety of astronauts, but\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/how-do-solar-storms-affect-electronics-gps-power-grid-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">they may be felt on Earth<\/a><\/span>, too, as space weather can affect power grids, GPS systems and radio communication, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The downward trend was documented from the 1980s until 2008, when the space agency determined that the sun had reached its weakest point on record. The sun&#8217;s action, or inaction, tends to fluctuate in 11-year cycles, according to NASA, although some patterns draw on longer.<\/p>\n<p>Earth is currently in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/news\/201509-solar-cycle#:~:text=We%20are%20now%20in%20Solar%20Cycle%2025%20with%20peak%20sunspot,Solar%20Cycle%201%20in%201755.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Solar Cycle 25<\/a>, which began in 2020. The last cycle maintained an average length of 11 years and was the weakest solar cycle to occur in a century, according to the National Weather Service. Scientists thought the sun would stay in what they dubbed &#8220;deep solar minimum,&#8221; believing that the stretch of quietness from the sun would continue, eventually leading to a new phase of record low activity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But then the trend of declining solar wind ended,&#8221; Jasinski said in NASA&#8217;s announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His study, co-authored by Marco Velli, a fellow researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, instead tracked increasing bursts of solar plasma and stronger magnetic field measurements throughout the solar system, which are all affected by the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Solar Cycle 26 is expected to begin some time between January 2029 and December 2032, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said, but the agency has not yet produced a prediction for the next cycle.<\/p>\n<p>In order to better track space weather, NASA announced that it will launch the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/carruthers-geocorona-observatory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carruthers Geocorona Observatory<\/a>\u00a0missions, as well as the NOAA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/swfo-l1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SWFO-L1<\/a>\u00a0mission, from Falcon 9 as early as next week. It comes just a few months after\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-tracers-satellites-solar-wind-space-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">SpaceX helped NASA launch TRACERS twin satellites<\/a><\/span> which are studying how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth&#8217;s magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Space weather predictions are critical for supporting the spacecraft and astronauts of NASA&#8217;s Artemis campaign, as understanding the space environment is a vital part of mitigating astronaut exposure to space radiation,&#8221; NASA said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, NASA officials recorded the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/severe-geomagnetic-storm-watch-issued-unusual-solar-event\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">strongest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years<\/a><\/span>. Several X-class solar flares \u2014 the largest of B-class, followed by C and M \u2014 sent the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/maps-northern-lights-forecast-us-aurora-borealis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">northern lights<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to far lower latitudes than normal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riviera-maya-news.com\/yucatan-peninsula-gets-rare-glimpse-of-northern-lights-during-largest-solar-storm-in-decades\/2024.html?cn-reloaded=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as far south as Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/northern-lights-forecast-map-tonight\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Geomagnetic storms<\/a><\/span> have the ability to impact how and whether technology functions on a massive scale, electrical engineer David Wallace explained in\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/how-do-solar-storms-affect-electronics-gps-power-grid-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">The Conversation<\/a><\/span>\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Internet service providers could go down, which in turn would take out the ability of different systems to communicate with each other. High-frequency communication systems such as ground-to-air, shortwave and ship-to-shore radio would be disrupted,&#8221; Wallace wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/kiki-intarasuwan\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kiki  Intarasuwan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/emily-mae-czachor\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Emily Mae  Czachor<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Emily Mae Czachor is a reporter and news editor at CBSNews.com. 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