In keeping with my overly-busy schedule (and your own, no doubt!) here is a day-late SpaceWeather News Alert concerning Friday August 31, 2012, the day of the mystical Full Moon @8Pis34 when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke made his stock-market-lifting remarks after the Fed’s Jackson Hole, Wyoming meeting about how the Fed "could do more" for the US economy, and a day after Mitt Romney’s
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Major Solar Flare erupts, Uprisings across globe 2.15.11
As Above, So Below…eruptions are flaring up all over the place, including space:Space Weather News for Feb 15, 2011MAJOR FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites have detected the strongest solar flare in more than four years. At 0156 UT on Feb 15th, giant sunspot 1158 unleashed an X2-class eruption. X-flares are the strongest type of x-ray flare, and this is the first such eruption of new Solar Cycle
Bright X-Ray Solar Flare from Sunspot 1121
Space Weather News for Nov 6, 2010BRIGHT SOLAR FLARE: Active sunspot 1121 has just unleashed one of the brightest x-ray solar flares in several years, an M5.4-class eruption at 15:36 UT on Nov 6th. Radiation from the flare created a wave of ionization in Earth’s upper atmosphere that altered the propagation of low-frequency radio waves. There was, however, no bright CME (plasma cloud) hurled in