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NASA scientists track these space weather events because they can affect spacecraft, astronauts, safety, radio communications, GPS and even power grids on Earth. Space weather predictions are critical for supporting the spacecraft and astronauts of NASA's Artemis campaign. As understanding the space environment is a vital part of mitigating astronaut exposure to space radiation. Launching no earlier than September 23, NASA's IMAP, or Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration probe, and Carothers-Geocorona observatory missions, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SWMO-L1, or Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange-1 mission, will provide new space weather research and observations that will help to drive future efforts at the Moon, Mars and beyond. Solar activity affects the magnetic fields of planets throughout the solar system as the solar wind, a team of charts of bubbles flowing from the Sun, and other solar activity in trees. The Sun's influence expands and compresses maggiespheres, which serve as protective bubbles of planets with magnetic cores in magnetic fields, including Earth. These protective bubbles are important for shielding planets from the jets of plasma that stream out from the Sun in the solar wind. Over the centuries that people have been studying solar activity, the quietest times were the three-decade stretch from 1645 to 1750 and a four-decade stretch from 1790 to 1830. We don't really know why the Sun went through a 40-year minimum starting in 1790 to 1767. The longer-term trends are a lot less predictable and are something we don't completely understand yet.