I’m hoping you haven’t forgotten that the earth be facing frequent solar flares in 2012. The sun shot off a powerful flare yesterday from a region that is notorious for flares. It wasn’t facing the earth so we were safe. However, the earth will be facing this very region in five days time, for two whole weeks. Hang tight.
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Oh and the flare was gorgeous!
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November 4, 2011 at 10:52 am
litterateuse
Magnificent! And scary.
Where can I read up more / access (authentic) pictures? Just nasa.gov?
November 4, 2011 at 10:55 am
Deepak
Check out the first episode of The Universe (Secrets of the Sun) at Netflix:
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Universe/70143831?trkid=2361637
November 7, 2011 at 11:10 am
Nikhil
On an unrelated note (well… since you are getting all sciency these days), here is a fine documentary on the nature of space.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2163057527
The big bang, huge galaxies, black holes etc though being immensely unfathomable still make sense but space-time, parallel universes, dark energy etc just seem so contradictory to our common experiences