Solar Flare News

My Take: Ray Villard takes on some of the more popular doomsday theories, debunking each in turn.

ON Nov. 13, when his latest tale of the apocalypse, "2012," arrives in theaters, the filmmaker Roland Emmerich will have waged more assaults on this planet than he can remember.

Moving Image Archive > NASA Images > A Multi-Mission View of the AR9906 Solar Flare without Instrument Labels NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Source: Planetary Science Institute - Comments On Dec.

No matter what conclusions one gravitates towards regarding climate change and potential solar impacts, the data is irrefutable: the sun is slowly becoming more active.

In a case of being in the right place at the right time, the MESSENGER spacecraft was able to capture a average-sized solar flare , allowing astronomers to study high-energy solar neutrons at less than 1 astronomical unit from the sun for the first time.

On September 1, 1859, Richard Carrington, a solar astronomer, drew sunspots he saw through his telescope.

"Sundar Sundaramurthy of Navin Enterprises, come on down," is how Selectman Chairman Cornelius "Connie" Sullivan introduced Sundaramurthy to the board at their meeting on Oct.

Category: Solar System Stars Video Posted on: October 20, 2009 10:18 AM, by Ethan Siegel Ever see a picture of a Solar Prominence before? If you have, you'll recognize these loop-like features leaving the Sun's surface and ending up in the Sun's corona: Well two spacecraft designed to monitor the Sun, Stereo A and Stereo B just imaged a 30-hour ...

NASA's twin spacecraft have captured rare footage of a solar eruption. The footage shows the Sun erupting over about a 30-hour period between September 26th and 27th.

From the Behind perspective the long filament, darker than the Sun's surface, can be seen rising up and then breaking away, spreading out above most of the Sun's surface.

Dramatic eruptions on the Sun have been captured in rare footage by two Nasa spacecraft.

Accused 1968 Cuba hijacker pleads not guilty in N.Y. Discuss story iPod friendly version Reuters October 14, 2009 - 12:00 a.m. EST Photo Click on photo to enlarge The exhaust from the engines of a commercial aircraft create the illusion of a solar flare as it flies in front of the sun in Wilmington, Delaware, May 18, 2007.

After one of the quietest periods of solar activity in known history, the Sun is showing signs of beginning the next sunspot maximum cycle.

While each day is growing shorter in terms of the amount of sunlight shining, the strength of the sun may locally become noticeable next week as it aligns with telecommunication equipment on the ground and in space.

I hope you enjoyed the tidbits on Cherry Springs State Park in northern PA that I posted on Thursday.

*Probably still worth it for the burning envy from Yankee and Russki astro-cosmonauts, writing on paper with their elderly, backward pressurized space pens and sturdy wooden pencils.

It would not instantly kill millions the way a direct hit by a nuclear weapon would, but death would be more insidious - people would die slowl y from lack of water, food, emergency services, or violence after the breakdown of law and order.

An illustration of the solar wind as it streaks by the Earth. When the solar cycle was at a minimum level in 1996, the sun sprayed Earth with relatively few, weak high-speed streams .

Families of late police and firefighters will benefit from this 9/11 charity show put on by Hova and his peeps.