The Sun’s recent activity has left astronomers puzzled with its unpredictable fluctuations in normal activity. Currently we are in Sun Cycle 24, which began in 2009 and is supposed to peak this year. Instead of its peaking as expected, there have been seasons of unusually quiet solar activity. This could be a good thing, due […]
NASA scientists recently revealed that particles from a sun storm on July 23, 2012 almost struck the Earth but the planet was saved by a mere week’s rotation. It was a near miss. Had the solar flare occurred just one week earlier, it would have been directly facing the Earth rather than off to the […]
The sun has a sibling which came from the same cosmic womb as the star that shines in the milky way. The newly discovered sun sibling is 110 light-years away from earth and resides inside the constellation known as Hercules. The universe is full of mystery. It seems like the more discoveries scientists make, the […]