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Sunspot number

Latest monthly international sunspot number; add ?series=true for the full multi-century history (always spans the whole window — downsampled evenly to the `limit` point cap when longer, per meta.hint).

CategoryAbsurd cosmos
ProductSolar cycle
MetricSunspot number
Unitsunspots
Cadencemonthly
Shapeobject
Minimum planfree
Venuesgov_geophysical
Entitiesn/a
Entity paramnot required
EndpointGET /v1/data/absurd_cosmos/solar_cycle/sunspot_number

What you get back

Every response is one envelope: { data, meta, provenance }. data is the value, meta carries a live confidence score and a stalenessfigure, and provenance names the contributing venues and the method, so you can audit freshness and lineage without a second call.

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