Solar Flare II

Solar Flare



Credit: NASA / Goddard / SDO AIA Team

This flare (bright white) was directed straight towards Earth. What a spectacle! :-)

Solar Flare

Flare, Flare!



Huge eruption on the Sun the other day hits our atmosphere now. Do not depend on GPS. I repeat, DO NOT DEPEND ON GPS. You will get lost. :-)

This is what space weather is about, warning us about the swarm of electrically charged particles heading our way from the Sun.