SUMMARY: We've now reached the Sun's solar minimum; there's not a sunspot anywhere across the surface of our closest star. Give it a few years, though, and it should be anything but quiet. Solar researchers think they understand the long term cycles of solar activity, and they're predicting that the next Solar Maximum - expected to arrive between 2010 and 2012 - will be the strongest in 50 years.

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