Nearby star's midlife crisis illuminates the future of our own Sun - Science

Long magnetic lull on star mimics the Maunder Minimum, when the Sun’s spots largely disappeared 400 years ago

Soon after European astronomers developed the first telescopes at the start of the 17th century, they observed dark spots speckling the Sun’s surface. They also handed their modern successors a myste… [+5250 chars]

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