C-14 Record Shows Sun Unusually Active Now

Credit: MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE
Study of the carbon isotope C-14 in ancient tree trunks for evidence of past solar activity reveals the Sun has been more active during the past 60 years than in the preceding 8,000. A group led by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research analyzed C-14 in buried tree trunks dating...

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