The seasons of the Sun 🌿☀️🍂❄️ Just as Earth goes through seasonal changes, our Sun moves from times of frequent explosive eruptions to calm stretches of relative quiescence. It’s all part of the roughly 11-year alternation in magnetic activity known as the solar cycle. Right now we’re in the period known as solar maximum — and solar activity is at its peak! Flares, coronal mass ejections, and the northern and southern lights are most readily observed during this time. But eventually, our close