The disquieting news arrive to us from the world of astronomy, the Sun seems that it is unusually quiet during last the eight months. As much, that the astronomers begin to ask themselves if as much calm will not be, for our misfortune, the calm that precedes until now to a never well-known activity. From January of this year, the dark spots that normally sprinkle the surface of our star (and which they are not another thing that zones temporarily colder, caused by the irruption to the surface of the magnetic fields interns) have disappeared almost completely without nobody guesses right to say when they will return to take place, nor they will do to what extent it.

The speed and the intensity of next `generación' of spots would reveal the scientists how of assets it will be the new solar cycle that is approached, and how of dangerous, therefore, for the systems of satellite communicationses terrestrial and mains.

But the Sun, so far, prefers to continue keeping its secret. Normally, the number of sunspots varies cyclical (from a minimum to a maximum and return to begin) in periods that follow one another every eleven years, the same time that takes the magnetic poles of the star in investing their direction. At the moments of maximum activity, it is easy that several dozens of spots to the day take place.

And although it is certain that now we are at the end of the present cycle, and in the period of smaller intensity, the total absence of spots (as it is possible to be observed in the image of the Soho satellite, seizure) yesterday suggests parón that is not absolutely habitual. To make matters worse, according to the Atmospheric and Oceanic Agency of the United States, August of 2008 has been the first month from 1913 in which any sunspot has not been detected. And the center of Solar Data analyses with soothes in Brussels, the maximum authority on the matter, hardly assures that in all the month if it has been possible to detect a small and fleeting point that could be counted as it stains.

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