A Slumbering Sun Awakes?
Hello and happy Tuesday everyone hope all is well. Take a look at some of these images, they’re out of this world, literally!
After a very quiet solar period, the sun is beginning to wake up, see the full article here:
Also, here is more on the past Solar Minimum:
An Active Sun Causes Problems?
An active sun can cause in increase in Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights/Southern Light) but it can also cause some major problems for us here on earth. Find out how the sun brought darkness to a Canadian Province in 1989, here:
One indicator of an active sun is a sunspot. The latest 2010 numbers show that there have only been 33 days this year without a sunspot. Compare that with the 260 days without a sunspot in 2009.
Latest Sunspot Disappears
New NASA SDO Satellite Captures Explosion on the Sun:
Deep Impact Jupiter Style
Amateur astronomer captures an unknown object impacting Jupiter At exactly 20:31 UT (Universal Time) on June 3, 2010
Nightly June Comet Visible
Newcomer to our inner solar system, Comet McNaught will be visible during June dawn. See full story here:
Hope you enjoyed the blog today, more coming at you tomorrow – see you then!
Meteorologist Todd Nelson – WeatherNation LLC