<div dir="ltr"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody style="box-sizing:border-box"><tr style="box-sizing:border-box"><td style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-story" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:618.4px;font-size:16px;height:auto;float:left"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt">The sun is so spotless, it looks like a giant orange billiard ball</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box">The sun has just crossed 33 days without a sunspot, marking the longest stretch of blank suns in the current solar cycle.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">This development is consistent with recent predictions that the solar cycle will reach a minimum in 2019-2020, ultimately bouncing back for a new Solar Max in the years ahead.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Visit <a href="https://spaceweather.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&amp;id=137204b2d1&amp;e=f98eeb7cd6" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">Spaceweather.com</a> to learn how sunspots--or lack thereof--affect us on Earth</p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>