Now that the Sun is approaching the peak of its magneticcycle, when solar storms - blasts of electrically charged magnetic clouds - are most likely to occur, no one can predict how it will behave.
The sun is currently approaching what's known as solar maximum, the peak of our star's roughly 11-year cycle of magnetic activity.
因为目前的太阳正逐渐接近它的“活动峰年”，也就是周期约为11年的地磁活跃高峰期。
3
A new computer model suggests the next solarcycle will be more active than the previous one, potentially spawning magnetic storms that will be more disruptive to communication systems on Earth.