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Star-gazers are being urged to stay up late and enjoy one of the best displays of the Geminid meteor showers for some years on the night of 14 December 2010.

The National Trust has cited Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire as one of the seven best locations to view the meteors.

The peak of activity was expected on Tuesday morning, however, cloud cover meant that very little could be seen.

Astronomers say that the display will last until the early hours of Wednesday 15 December.

So we still may have  show tonight in OZ (15/12/10)

Awesome Pic from space weather

This impressive piece of machine is capable of constructing a building / statue using sand and an inorganic binding material, the finished product looks like marble and is stronger then concrete.

This Printer could be  going to the MOON! to start construction of a moon base using moon dust.

Dini also has lunar plans for the D-shape, and is in discussions with La Scuola Normale Superiore, Norman Foster (a UK architecture firm), and Alta Space, as part of the Aurora program run by the European Space Agency (ESA), to build a modified D-Shape that could use lunar regolith (moon dust) to build a moon base. Dini will carry out trials in a vacuum chamber at Alta Space’s facility in Pisa to ensure the process is possible in a low-atmosphere environment such as the moon.

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Previously posted about a massive Solar Filament which stretch across 1Million KM  of the Sun’s surface and there was a concern the solar Filament may collapse causing a Hyder Flare.

The  Solar Filament did collapse, however, when it did it was not facing towards Earth  and there was no mention of a Hyder Flare or a CME.

Now it appears the Sun is awake, with another Solar Filament, this one much smaller in comparison only 50,000km. – http://spaceweather.com/

It looks as though the sun is now out of its 11 year slumber and the new Solar High is upon us.

Perhaps all this solar activity may have something to do with the changing weather? server storms and Blizzards?

Also take a look at the Earth Quakes, there has been a lot of activity recently on the Richter, there is nothing proven that the suns activity relates to earthquakes but given the current timing you can’t help but wonder….

Here is a list of  M5.0+ (ONLY) Earthquakes from the past 8 days  (01/03/2010 – 08/03/2010)

That’s 71 M5.0+ earthquakes in the past 8 days, that averages out to 8.8 per day around the world most in the Chile Region

Previous related article - Enormous Magnetic Filament on the Sun

The ‘Great Magnetic Filament’ on the sun that we’ve been tracking for the past week finally erupted yesterday.

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) images bracket the eruption between 0719 and 1919 UT on Feb. 24th. The event did not produce a bright solar flare, as sometimes happens when filaments erupt, but there was a coronal mass ejection (CME). SOHO coronagraphs observed at least one and possibly as many as three clouds billowing away from the sun: movie. If any of this material is heading for Earth–a big unknown!–it should arrive on Feb. 27th or 28th. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates.

I will keep you posted once more info is out, hopefully it is a mild CME enough to cause a small geomagnetic storm and give us a nice aurora light show.

A large CME could knock out satellites or worse effect our power grid and the worst thing about  that is  you can’t access Wycky News!!!!  :-(

So people in the far Northern and Southern Hemispheres keep your eyes on the sky 27th & 28th Feb for hopefully an awesome aurora  light show. If the Geomagnetic Storm is large enough people in Tasmania and maybe even Southern Victoria will get a piece of the action

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes.

The filament has remained mostly stable for at least two days (usually only last 60 – 120min). However, similar filaments in the past have been known to collapse, and when they hit the surface of the sun–bang! A tremendous explosion called a “Hyder flare” results, sometimes rivaling the strongest flares produced by sunspots. Solar physicists have not yet learned to predict Hyder flares, so we cannot estimate the odds of one now.

There is not a great deal known about Hyder Flare’s as they are a rare phenomenon. Last one occured September 12th 2000 causing a CME resulting in a minor geometric storm.

What would you do if this Hyder Flare caused a massive CME knocking out satellites?

You would have no

TV

Radio

Phone

Internet

All communications that relied on satellite would be down and depending on the size of the CME it could also effect ground communications……

So………….. what would you do??

Smiths Cloud discovered in 2008 is a cloud of hydrogen with a mass of approx 1 million of our suns, now it has been discovered that the cloud is massive enough to be classified has a galaxy, which appears to be colliding with ours.

Scientist believe this happen once before approx 70 million years ago which does match up with the extinction of Dinosaurs approx 60 – 70 million years ago.

In another article back in Feb 2005 the first Dark Galaxy was discovered made up almost entirely of Dark Matter. Could this be the same galaxy??

The scary part about Dark Matter is that we know very little about it, we can’t even see it (hence the name Dark Matter) we can only tell of its presents by it gravitational pull.

The most scary part about this is it is believed that our universe is made up of 25% Dark Matter, 70% Dark Energy and only 5% Ordinary Matter, therefore we really only understand 5% of the universal forces / energies that are out there.

Could we have collided with a galaxy 70 million years ago causing the extinction of the Dinosaurs and other species??

What effect (if any) would this collision have on the planet now, what effect on us??

Could this be part of the 2012 Mayan prediction???

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