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Solar cycles life cycles

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For most people on this planet, the Solar Cycle is like talking about the sex of Martians. Science in general is perceived as something alien to our world, even though in reality all of our technology, medicine, and in short, everything we know today as a way of life, is the result of years of effort in this field. Apart from material progress, science sheds light on the world around us; this natural world that we consider ourselves to be separate from, but on which our lives depend . Solar flare in X ray The Sun is not just for tanning and powering photovoltaic cells. As we learn in school, it is the source of life for plants, which in turn provide us (and our livestock) with food, and it also powers our weather. Of course, it is not expected that people know everything about what the Sun does, but each sneeze of the star should be seen as something more important than a scientific curiosity or an apocalyptic headline. Today, in the midst of climate change, it is important to know tha...

The year 2016 will end with three Super Moon

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This phenomenon occurs occasionally but now it will take many years to re-produce Artificial lighting has changed our way of life. Today humanity has abandoned the night and live in what we might call as a continuous vigil . Our society has eliminated the night, and with it the show that our ancestors have lived since our arrival on the planet over 100,000 years ago. So it’s no wonder that our language has so many references to heaven, but today literally ignore it as if we lived locked in a cave , but the cave is making of light. The Moon and the Sun preside over our sky and our references. Although the first to be more variable in both the movement and its appearance has generated more fascination. The Moon is coquettish, illuminates the darkness; and unlike the Sun, he can look face to face creating a hypnotic effect who stares at the long. At other times these moons unusual so great would be seen and commented, but are now just a simple press note. In the era of space trave...

Deep impact

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If we are reading this post now, it means that last February 15th happened nothing as was expected. On this day the lowest perigee object ever recorded passes close to Earth, 2012_DA14 with 50 m diameter and 190.000 Tm of weight (see NASA video with characteristics). This doesn’t mean that they haven’t previously been objects that pass closer to Earth, more if we think that Earth is 4,500 years old, simply we haven’t recorded in the few hundred thousand years of human existence. But much of the ignorance about if it has never been closer objects is because we really can’t until last 50 years that we can detect objects of this size, so whenever you have a sufficiently close to Earth was a surprise and a concern, not so much if we were mistaken in calculating the trajectory of this particular, and the fact that if one day find some its trajectory that will clearly impact with Earth.     It may seem like a horror movie, but there really is an alien threat and it isn...