— NASA Sun & Space (@NASASun) May 29, 2020 Nothing special. What, however, make it the most powerful solar flare observed since October 2017. It was followed by a class C flare – a less powerful flare, therefore – a few hours later. These eruptions could be a sign that researchers were waiting for our Sun to finally reach its minimum activity and now enter its cycle 25. But it will take another good six months of observations and counting of sunspots to confirm it. A variation in activity noted for a month is not enough in fact to define an overall trend for a star as variable as the Sun is.
