Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century (dailytech.com)

http://www.southgatearc.org/propagation/2008/august_29.htm is also quite useful for context and trends with the current solar cycle. An exciting time to be looking at the sun, no doubt!

From reading the headline, I imagined something on the lines of a new server... ;-)

Is it possible that there are sunspots on the other side of the sun or are they pretty uniformly distributed on the surface?...