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Biggest Solar Storm in Years

This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun as it unleashed an X5.4-class solar flare at 7:04 p.m. EST on March 6, 2012 (0002 March 7 GMT). The flare appears as the bright spot in the upper left. (CREDIT: NASA/SDO)

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March 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, Nature, News, Solar Flares, Solar Flares/CME | Leave a comment

Apocalypse Not Now: Debunking Mayan Doomsday Predictions | Fox News

The world probably isn't ending, according to NASA

Doomsday reports have reached a fever pitch this year — and it’s all thanks to the Mayans.

On Dec. 21, 2012, many doomsday believers fear the apocalypse will arrive — anything from a rogue planet smashing [more]

January 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, Comet Elenin, Conspiracy theories, Coronal Mass Ejection, Global Warming, NASA, News | Leave a comment

Solar storm collides with Earth’s magnetic field

This is a follow-up to the post yesterday about the CME that was coming our way from the Sun.  It did hit us, and I have not heard about any major negative effects.  There were some great Aurora Borealis lights (see embedded video from Fox [more]

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: 2012+related, Coronal Mass Ejection, Doomsday, NASA, News, Solar Flares, Solar Flares/CME, Videos | 6 comments

NASA issues new warning to prepare for “Once in a lifetime” Solar Storm

NASA’s latest solar storm warning 2012-2013 [more]

December 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, News, Solar Flares/CME | 11 comments

Sun comes alive, blasting massive solar flares – USATODAY.com

WASHINGTON (AP) – After years of quiet, the sun is coming alive with solar storms in a big way.

The sun shot off a flare Thursday afternoon from a region that scientists are calling a "benevolent monster."

Scientists at the federal Space Weather Prediction Center [more]

November 5th, 2011 | Tags: , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, Nature | Comments are closed

Solar Flare Sparks Biggest Eruption Ever Seen on Sun

A mushroom of cooled plasma popped like a pimple and rained onto the surface of the sun yesterday—shooting perhaps the largest amount of solar material into space ever seen, scientists say. (June 8, 2011)

(Watch a video of the solar flare.)

The solar flare—an unusually [more]

June 19th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , | Category: 2012+related, All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, NASA, News, Survival Tip? | One comment

Comet’s Kamikaze Dive Into Sun During Solar Storm – FoxNews.com

A sun-watching spacecraft has recorded views of an ill-fated comet plunging into the sun just after a huge solar eruption — the second time in 10 days that a comet dive-bombed Earth’s star during a solar storm.

Over May 20 and 21, the sun unleashed [more]

June 2nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: All Posts, Coronal Mass Ejection, News | Leave a comment