Category Archives: Space

It’s quiet on the sun these days. Too quiet. No sun spots of note. Some scientists regard that as possibly the cause of much of the late snow this spring and say it could be forecasting colder days ahead. But, theoretically, that won’t stop another brief super flare from our nearest star like the one that disrupted telegraph communications, caused auroras as far south as Cuba and surprised English solar astronomer Richard Carrington, in September, 1859. Imagine what another one would do to our electronic-dependent world. It could become known as the Day Silicon Died.