For centuries, astronomers have recorded that there are dark blemishes on the sun’s surface. This scientific record has feared everyone, giving us suspicions and fanatical whereabouts on the true condition of our sun, due to the fact that it is our life source. We all know that this spots are the windows into the sun’s magnetic soul. However, worry no more, because astronomers discovered that SUNSPOTS do come and go. It somehow made us confident upon knowing that SUNSPOTS are just normal, following a cycle of 11 years.

SUNSPOTS have mostly been missing, for the last two years. Their absence in the sun’s surface have puzzled everyone and surprised the sun watchers. Knowing that any changes into the SUNSPOTS number reflects changes inside the sun. This unusual behaviour of the sun has not taken place for nearly a hundred years. Such strange occurrence surprised David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He stated, "This is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory." Hathaway added, "During this transition, the sun is giving us a real glimpse into its interior."

This condition has triggered disputes over the sun’s role in climate change. In response to this circumstance, NASA and the European Space Agency launched the Solar and Heliosheric Observatory, almost 15 years ago. But, Bernhard Fleck the mission’s project scientist uttered that, “understanding the solar cycle was not one of its scientific objectives”. “Now is it one of the key questions,” he added

Since the sun began to calm down in late 2007, it is not expected that there will be a lesser number of sunspots to show in 2008. The interesting part of this latest dip is that the sun is having trouble starting the next solar cycle. Computer models also predicted that when the spots return, they will do so in force. Hathaway reported that when the cycle soon starts again, it means there will be more sunspots, more solar storms are to be expected, and more energy will be blasted into space. There are also others who predicted that when the solar cycle starts again, it will be the most active one on record.

When 2008 came to be even calmer than expected, it was proven that the prediction was wrong. For the whole year the sun only showed the minimum of 1913 spots and the sun was spot free 73 per cent of the time. Time passed and 2009 arrived, the sun’s performance surprised the solar physicists as they looked for some action. The sun seemed to fail their expectations until mid-December. But when the largest group of sunspots emerge, the physicists did not get it, because the sun seemed to return to its normal condition, actually not really, because the number of sunspots has so far been so low beyond expected.