Solar buzz

This is such a cool graphic that I had to post it up right away. A loyal Blog Follower (WR) sent an article from a Vietnamese newspaper about some science guys warning about an increase in solar storms in the coming years. You can read it here.

Anyway, you can see that the article carried this graphic above. However, the graphic was tiny, tiny, tiny. I messed around with it this morning and got it up to a decent size. It's a tad blurry but what the heck? It's a wonderful depiction of the relationship between our flyspeck Earthship and the gigantic thing we call the sun. The Spaceweather website has been carrying quite a few references speculating about what might happen as the next sunspot cycle gets underway. (IF it ever does!) Click the graphic to see larger version.