Start of the new Solar Cycle
http://news.theage.com.au/new-sunspot-marks-start-of-solar-cycle/20080106-1kdq.html
The Solar Cycle must be in a good state of tune. It fired up a tad early:-
Last April, an international panel of solar experts forecast that Solar Cycle 24 would start in March 2008, plus or minus six months.
and for those not familiar, they know it's the first sunspot of the new cycle and not the last of the old one because the sunspots of each cycle share the same magnetic polarity, but switch from one cycle to the next.