The link between the title, the contents of the article, and the concept of a cycle as usually understood couldn't be more tenuous.

So... in a nutshell, we've observed for a while that there is a 11-year cycle. We're five years into one of those. We've just detected the same kind of activity which was detected 11 years ago, which makes us believe that 6 years from now, the cycle will repeat.

In other words, the sun isn't "starting the next solar cycle" I guess?

The title of this article is like saying, it's the middle of the night here in New York, but we're hearing that there's daylight in Dubai right now so, let's title our article "Sunrise is happening already - despite it being 2AM in NYC"

The title is clickbait. This quote halfway down the article says it all;

> "We're likely seeing the first traces of Cycle 26, which won't officially start until about 2030."

Just from the title it sounded like this was unusual. From reading the article it is not. It doesn't mean the next cycle is starting sooner than expected

So it's multi threaded.

Hah, yeah that sounds like a good analogy

is that because of how the sun twists as it rotates?

It's the Sun, it can do whatever it wants. Try stopping it, if you dare.

So it looks more of a solar pipeline than cycle.

A cycle within a cycle

Global warming!

a bi-cycle?