Categories Burlington Education Iowa Local Nature News West Burlington The sun is blank, NASA data shows it to be dimming Post author By Falcon Post date December 17, 2017 Click here: The sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days (27%) of the days observing the sun have been without sunspots. Image courtesy NASA ← The Media are Killing Themselves with Botched Anti-Trump Reporting → What John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump have in common