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Quiet Sun, Coronal hole faces Earth

Five B-class solar flares. That's the only solar activity the Sun managed to produce last week. We're only two years after solar maximum but the Sun has already gone very quiet as if it approaches solar minimum. Could this be a sign for the years to come? We hope not.

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