After a sustained lull of very little solar activity, the sun is finally coming back to life.
In mid-December, solar physicists observed a large group of sunspots that had manifested itself on the solar surface — the largest group of sunspots to emerge for several years.
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) are studying the sunspots and how this flare-up compares to previous levels of solar activity.
"This last minimum was much deeper and longer than anybody predicted," said Bernhard Fleck, ESA's project scientist for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), in a statement. "We were beginning to joke that we had entered another Maunder minimum."
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