One of the most interesting eras in sunspot history was the grand solar minimum called the Maunder minimum, a period from ...

The sun was well observed during the period of the Maunder Minimum and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity corresponded to a climatic period called the ‘Little ...

Despite huge interest in them, astronomers could find no sunspots for a 70-year period known as the Maunder minimum. Then, in 1715, they mysteriously started to appear again. In the period since ...