NASA forecasts new solar cycle could be strongest ever – ‘Pattern becomes obvious’

The movement of these bright points across the mid-latitudes seems to coincide with sunspot activity.

These bright points are linked with bands of magnetic fields wrapped around the Sun, propagating from the poles to the equator approximately every 11 years.

Because they have opposite polarity, when they meet in the middle, they cancel each other out – dubbed by researchers as a “terminator”.

Such terminator events mark the end of a solar magnetic cycle, and the start of the next.

source: express.co.uk