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Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: We are currently just coming out of the midpoint of the sunspot cycle, there are usually very few sunspots to be seen at the midpoint. The cycle does average around 11 years although there has been talk of a longer 33 year cycle. The Sun appears to be very quiet at present, the calm before the storm, I guess.
Any of the dark, irregular spots that usually appear in groups on the surface of the Sun (its photosphere), lasting from a few days to several weeks or more. Sunspots appear dark because they are cooler, by up to 1,500Â°K, than the surrounding photosphere. They are associated with strong magnetic fields and solar magnetic storms moving in a vortex pattern, similar to a tornado on Earth. The number of sunspots waxes and wanes over an 11-year period; at maximum activity there are often increased numbers of solar flares.