{"id":38245,"date":"2019-06-19T06:55:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38245"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T10:55:05","slug":"planetary-orbits-may-influence-11-year-solar-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/planetary-orbits-may-influence-11-year-solar-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary orbits may influence 11-year solar cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Image: NASA)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who shares this interesting article via Space.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The orbits of Venus, Earth and Jupiter may explain the sun’s regular 11-year cycle, a new study suggests.<\/p>\n

A team of researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), a research institute in Dresden, Germany, showed that the magnetic fields of those three planets influence the\u00a0cycle of solar activity<\/u><\/a>, resolving one of the bigger questions in solar physics.<\/p>\n

“Everything points to a clocked process,” Frank Stefani, a researcher at HZDR and lead author of the new study, said in a\u00a0statement<\/u><\/a>. “What we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles.”<\/p>\n

The researchers compared observations of\u00a0solar activity<\/u><\/a> \u2014 like sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections \u2014 from the last thousand years with planetary alignments in order to show that there was in fact a correlation, according to the statement.[…]<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full article at Space.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who shares this interesting article via Space.com: The orbits of Venus, Earth and Jupiter may explain the sun’s regular 11-year cycle, a new study suggests. A team of researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), a research institute in Dresden, Germany, showed that the magnetic fields of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,810],"tags":[6546,7837,414,7838,811],"class_list":["post-38245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-weather","tag-dan-van-hoy","tag-solar-cycle","tag-solar-cycle-25","tag-space-com","tag-spaceweather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9WR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52078,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/termination-event-may-indicate-solar-cycle-strength\/","url_meta":{"origin":38245,"position":0},"title":"Termination Event May Indicate Solar Cycle Strength","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"March 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Predictions for Solar Cycle 25. 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