Sunlike stars have starspots, just as the sun has sunspots. Baliunas is one of the leading investigators of starspots. She is co-author of a recent article in Scientific American which presents studies of the spot cycles of many sunlike stars. Stars have Maunder minima too , and one has even been caught entering such a period when spots are rare. Studies of starspots have erased much of the mystery which used to surround sunspot cycles.
Sunspot cycles are now fairly well understood.
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