Don’t look at the sun when the washer is on its 25th spin cycle

Holy fucking shit – the Sun already began it’s solar cycle # 25, totally, I mean totally skipping solar cycle #24.  Holy fucking shit!  You can read about it here http://xrt.cfa.harvard.edu/resources/pubs/savc0707.pdf . Also if you can translate the following into english I would appreciate it:  
 
 The velocity of this transverse motion is, on average, 20kms−1. The direction of [...]