The Maunder minimum was once thought to be linked to the Little Ice Age (LIA), a cool period in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid ...

The Maunder Minimum was named by solar astronomer John Eddy in 1976 after E.W. Maunder, an English scientist who, along with German scientist Gustav Spörer, first noticed the decrease in solar ...

Maunder minimum: The period from 1640-1710 when almost no sunspots were observed. It coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, a period of colder-than-average temperatures in Europe.

The Sun’s Maunder Minimum lasted from 1645 and 1715, during which its solar activity almost entirely fell off a cliff. Between 1672 and 1699, fewer than 50 sunspots were observed. Contrast that with ...

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But at present it is not unprecedented; in fact, the very previous solar minimum [2009-2010] was longer." The Maunder Minimum was the period between 1650 to 1715 when solar activity was extremely low.

Dear Tom, What is the Maunder minimum? — Bob Kozlik, Riverwoods Dear Bob, The Maunder minimum was a period of extreme reduced solar activity that occurred from about 1640 to 1715. It was named ...

Besides, that “Little Ice Age” that occurred during the Maunder minimum, it wasn’t so much a global ice age as a cold spell in Europe, and it may have been caused more by clouds of ash from ...

The Maunder Minimum is a fascinating area of study given that we still don't know why it happened—or enough about the internal dynamics of the Sun that drove it.

The Maunder minimum was once thought to be linked to the Little Ice Age (LIA), a cool period in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th ...