solar flares

Holy crap! http://spaceweather.com/ We are already waiting for a class G-3 solar storm to hit. All this does is guarantee clouds here in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NYS.

Soooo...I would hate to wake up to a world where I cant get online and bash Deathwings brains in, but according to some,this might actually happen sometime 2013 or in 2014 due to our friendly neighbourhood star the Sun pms'ing worse than usual. Having scoured the interwebs for information and...

Watch this thread, I'll post updates. A month or so ago the Sun sent us a plasma cloud of charged particles from solar flare that sent a coronal mass ejection or CME crashing into the Earth. The aurora borealis or northern lights were visible across half of Europe when the CME reached Earth. It...

If you have clear skies the night of Aug 6, and you are in the temperate zone or further North, (or South for our friends down under), be sure to look up. There was an M1 solar flare aimed right at the Earth yesterday. It's a big flare but not the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) such flares...

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/browse/2010/09/20/behind_20100920_euvi_195_512.mpg The STEREO-Behind 195-A images show two active regions in the northern hemisphere that are close together and have started electromagnetically interacting with each other. These are pretty much prime...

I need help, since as per usual, google is only giving me crap and for some reason I can't find if Phil Plait has addressed this. I had someone ask me if a solar flare could wipe out earth. I feel the earth is too far away for one solar flare to ever wipe us out. Sure, we can feel some...

http://beta.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/article458070.ece Sounded worryingly catasrophic until I saw the source of that last line :rolleyes: Sure the 2012 conpiracy nuts are going to absolutely jump on this. NASA...