October 28, 2026, 13:14 UT
According to the catalog, there is still one solitary sunspot remaining on the otherwise blank Sun today. Yet, it couldn’t be found. For comparison, on this same day two years ago, there were 78 sunspots on the star. Back then—on October 28, 2022—the Sun looked like this.
Time to pack away the telescopes and satellites.
What is actually going on here? The solar minimum isn’t even forecast to occur until 2030.