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The first solar storm of 2012 occurred on January 2nd. Should be a great year for space weather! Can't wait to see what all the sun throws at us this year.

#Space weather #Solar storm #Solar activity #solar

Brian Malow's 5 min talk on Hydrogen and Helium. Hope it makes you laugh!

#Video #Brian Malow #Hydrogen and Helim

Good luck with the re-entry. Here's hoping for a safe crash landing.

#Phobos-Grunt #Russian space craft #Re-entry #space junk

Some cool new news from NASA

#NASA #Spitzer #55 Cancri e #Kepler #ScienceCasts #Alien Worlds #Susupercritical fluid

#Space Weather #Venus transit #solar #space #science #Venus

Space policy, no matter how boring is always important. It's where we get our funding and until non scientist realise just how important it is to fund science, it's something scientist need to work on communicating to the public and politicians.

#space policy #space #politics

#Wired science #Space #Gemini mission #photos

STEREO has captured this amazing view of this large flare!

#Space Weather #X-class flare #CME

Women have passed through my life like exotic particles through a cloud chamber, leaving only vapor trails for me to study for clues to their nature. - Brian Malow

http://www.sciencecomedian.com/?s=bar+jokes

#Quotes #Science Comedian

Have you ever tried to find a way to procrastinate but still kinda feel like maybe you are learning some electromagnetism? Try this Magneto Bowling! So much fun, and yet it's kinda educational.

#Space Weather #magnetobowling #procrastination #space

Some of the missions to watch for this year. My favourite not mentioned here is the Radiation Belt Storms Probe, RBSP, it's going to the inner magnetosphere to look at the radiation belts and the plasmasphere. It's like a new and improved CRRES! It also comes with it's own great movie trailer.

#Space #Space Weather #Space missions #NASA #ESA #2012

Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the Sun. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, father of cosmonautics.

http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/quotes.html

#quotes #Space

A cool video explaining solar storms and some of the effects we see on the Earth.

#Space Weather #Video #solar storms #solar activity

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. - Woody Allen

http://www.quoteland.com/topic/Space-Quotes/134/

#Space #Woody Allen #Quotes

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.” - Douglas Adams quotes

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/space/

#Space #Quotes #Douglas Adams

The Sun is slowly becoming active once again. Hopefully this will lead to a beautiful 2012.

#Space Weather #Solar activity

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