SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 05/09/2025
ON THE SUN, THIS IS WHAT ‘QUIET’ LOOKS LIKE: All week long, solar activity has been low with a persistent quiet causing the sun’s X-ray output to flatline. However, everything is relative. On the sun, this is what ‘quiet’ looks like:
Pope Leo XIV
Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, from Chicago, most recently led a powerful Vatican office for bishop appointments. He is expected to build on Pope Francis’ reforms. The 267th pope spent years working in Peru and holds dual citizenship. Timing suggests Prevost quickly impressed peers during secretive process. The message Fareed thinks Rome is sending with electing new Pope: Leo is ‘a man of God’ and is preaching Catholic social thought, friend says.
