6.2K views · 334 reactions | The Sun touches everything in our solar system with its continuous flow of solar wind. ️ Although we’ve been studying the solar wind for more than 60 years, scientists are still puzzled by its behavior. To learn more, Parker Solar Probe has been listening to plasma waves in the solar wind.  credit: Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics Laboratory | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook

Have you heard? We are now officially in the solar maximum phase! That means we’re in the part of the 11-year solar cycle where solar eruptions, geomagnetic storms, and auroras are most likely to occur. But how do scientists tell where we are in the solar cycle? They count sunspots! Those dark solar splotches tell a story: As solar activity waxes and wanes, so does the sunspot count. But don’t just take our word for it – try it yourself! Track the current and past solar cycles with these fun sun

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NASA Solar System Exploration on Reels

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