Site Last Updated June 23, 2011: Good news a slower CME should deliver a weaker blow.
Sun will sextile Jupiter on June 24th and 25th when the storm hits.
Even though Jupiter in Taurus could mean slower solar flares,
we are in a period where the Sun now in Cancer per the solstice is in a difficult TSQ with Uranus-Pluto and Saturn meaning more destruction.

Geomagnetic Storm Warning
A fast-moving stream of solar wind is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. The combined effect of this stream plus a CME expected to arrive soon (see below) has prompted NOAA forecasters to declare a 30% to 35% chance of geomagnetic storms on June 23-24.

CME FORECAST, REVISED: A CME propelled toward Earth by the "solstice solar flare" of June 21st may be moving slower than originally thought. Analysts at the GSFC Space Weather Lab have downgraded the cloud's probable speed from 800 km/s to 650 km/s. Impact is now expected on June 24th at 0700 UT plus or minus 7 hours. In this animated forecast model, the yellow dot is Earth:

A slower CME should deliver a weaker blow to Earth's magnetic field. Forecasters now predict a relatively mild G1-class (Kp=5) geomagnetic storm when the cloud arrives.

Site Last Updated June 23, 2011: Despite the seemingly excessive fears being generated by the media and even NASA,
the Sept. 1, 1859 storm involved a Grand Square in Fixed signs and now in July 2011 we are heading toward a Grand Square in Cardinal, Active signs
Precautions won't hurt for sure.

Getting ready for the next big solar storm
(PhysOrg.com) -- In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to categorize it. The blast peppered Earth with the most energetic protons in half-a-millennium, induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire, and sparked Northern Lights over Cuba and Hawaii.
This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a simple question: What if it happens again? "A similar storm today might knock us for a loop," says Lika Guhathakurta, a solar physicist at NASA headquarters. "Modern society depends on high-tech systems such as smart power grids, GPS, and satellite communications--all of which are vulnerable to solar storms."

Site Last Updated June 21, 2011: Before today's Summer Solstice Begins a preview of the Sun-Uranus square
another massive explosition on the Sun.

Incoming CME as Sunspot 1236 Erupts!
Magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1236 erupted during the early hours of June 21st, producing a C7-class solar flare and a full-halo CME. The expanding cloud appears to be heading almost directly toward Earth:

This does not appear to be an especially powerful CME. Nevertheless, the incoming cloud could trigger polar geomagnetic storms when it reaches Earth on or about June 23rd. The aurora outlook favors southern hemisphere observers, where solstice skies are winter-dark.

Site Last Updated June 17, 2011: Talk about the effect of a highly changeable, mutable cross in reversing opinions on future solar activity.
More from the June 14th announcement with Sun-Mercury togehter .
What - another ice age?
This astrological mutable cross comprising Mercury (mind-studies) in Gemini near Sun (leaders) and S Node (past evidence) all in the sign of the twins.
Saturn - limitation in the future as
"even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated."

American Astronomical Society Joins the Dark Side?

Based on the charts above the way things are going, sunspots could disappear altogether in the next handful of years. When you look at the bottom chart with the B Gauss, when levels drop below 1500 sunspots will all but disappear. What the total repercussions will be is yet to be determined but another serious blow to the Global Warming agenda has been delivered today.
For years a raging debate has been going on between Global Warming being natural or man-made, false or true, political or scientific. Well today in a major announcement the American Astronomical Society has dropped a bomb on the astronomical, meteorological, and political field. In their annual meeting taking place the following has been stated:
An excerpt from http://www.space.com states the following:
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.

Site Last Updated June 16, 2011: Some folks might be thinking that after yesterday's totally expansive lunar eclipse in the sign of more speed, Sagittarius
anything is possible!
well we have evidence that with the Sun that is true.
In fact this is concrete evidence of "propagating fast mode magnetosonic waves at such high speeds in the Sun’s low atmosphere"

Surf’s Up! Solar Wave Clocked At 4.5 Million Miles Per Hour

Time to grab your silver surfboards because scientists utilizing the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on-board NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), have picked up on quasi-periodic waves in the low solar corona that travel at speeds as high as 2,000 kilometers per second (4.5 million miles per hour). Just think… We could ride that tasty wave to the Moon and back about 16 times during lunch break and still have time for coffee!
Presenting the findings today at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society is Dr. Wei Liu, a Stanford University Research Associate at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) at the company’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto. His research has provided concrete evidence of propagating fast mode magnetosonic waves at such high speeds in the Sun’s low atmosphere. We’ve known for awhile that hot plasma will produce a “ripple effect” – much like a bubble popping to the surface when heating gravy. While computer simulations, models and theories speculated how it occurred, it wasn’t until now that these waves have been directly observed. Why? Because we simply weren’t quick enough.
“It is the high temporal and spatial resolution of AIA that enables us to see these waves clearly for the first time. AIA takes high sensitivity, extreme ultraviolet (EUV) pictures of the solar corona at spatial scales down to 1,100 kilometers, every 12 seconds with 0.1-2 second exposures,” said Dr. Liu, who led the analysis of the waves. “In addition, AIA’s full Sun field of view at seven simultaneous wavelengths allows us to track them over large spatial and temperature ranges.”

Site Last Updated June 15, 2011: From an astrological angle:
Volcanic tinged Moon with a Shade of Blood on the MidPoint of the 3rd. Night of the Universal Underworld
This Total Lunar Eclipse @ 25 Sagittarius (1:14 PM PDT) and will be particularly potent and wild with a Grand Mutable Cross.
Virgo will be rising in charts set for the West Coast (San Francisco) and opposing Ceres in Pisces crossed by Moon-N Node opposing Sun-Mercury-S Node all in Gemini. With all these highly changeable signs crossing, it will be hard to keep track of the erratic, mercurial strange and fluctuating changes which will be happening

VOLCANIC LUNAR ECLIPSE:
On Wednesday night, June 15th, there's going to be a total lunar eclipse visible from every continent except North America. The Moon will spend 100 minutes fully engulfed in Earth's shadow, making this the longest lunar eclipse in nearly 11 years. Maximum coverage occurs on Wednesday night at 20:12 UTC
Details here
Live Webcast

Site Last Updated June 15, 2011: Pushing the boundaries of what we know about the universe is also about what we can see visually.
Sagittarius is the sign that most relates to seeing beyond - today's Total Lunar Eclipse in Sagittarius will be adding even more to our knowledge of the far side of the Sun.

STEREO Spacecraft Provides First Complete Image of Sun’s Far Side
Far out! This is the first complete image of the solar far side, the half of the sun invisible from Earth. Captured on June 1, 2011, the composite image was assembled from NASA’s two Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. STEREO-Ahead’s data is shown on the left half of image and STEREO-Behind’s data on the right.
You may recall that the two STEREO spacecraft reached opposition (180 degree separation) on February 6 of this year and the science team released a “complete” 360 degree view of the Sun. However, a small part of the sun was inaccessible to their combined view until June 1. This image represents the first day when the entire far side could be seen.
The image is aligned so that solar north is directly up. The seam between the two images is inclined because the plane of Earth’s – and STEREO’s – orbit, known as the “ecliptic”, is inclined with respect to the sun’s axis of rotation. The data was collected by STEREO’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imagers in the SECCHI instrument suites.
The video below explains why seeing the entire Sun is helpful to scientists:

Site Last Updated June 14, 2011: After Solar Cycle 24 began to really accelerate last year with the consensus that it will reach maximum in 2013, today's announcement contradicted everything.
WTF - per Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory's Solar Synoptic Network. "But the fact that three completely different views of the sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."
From an astrological perspective a major mutable aspect involving "uncertainty and confusion" has been buildin
toward tomorrow's Total Lunar Eclipse where Sun-Mercury-S Node in Gemini are opposing Moon-N Node in Sagittarius
crossed by Juno (Virgo) and Ceres (Pisces)
expect this issue to be part of conflicting information going forward.

Update: Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years.
The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated.
The results of the new studies were announced today (June 14) at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.
The studies looked at a missing jet stream in the solar interior, fading sunspots on the sun's visible surface, and changes in the corona and near the poles. [Photos: Sunspots on Earth's Star]
"This is highly unusual and unexpected," said Frank Hill, associate director of the National Solar Observatory's Solar Synoptic Network. "But the fact that three completely different views of the sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."

Site Last Updated June 14, 2011: Without a doubt Sunspot Cycle 24 has accelerated and today's announcement should shed more light on the developing solar maximum.
Today's announcement aligns with the Moon in space-oriented Sagittarius opposing Mercury-Sun-S Node expect a long term change.

'Major Result' on Sunspot Cycle to be Announced Tuesday
Astronomers will unveil a "major result" on Tuesday (June 14) regarding the sun's 11-year sunspot cycle.
The announcement will be made at a solar physics conference in New Mexico, according to an alert released today (June 10) by the American Astronomical Society. The discussion will begin at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).
Sunspots are blotches on the sun that appear dark because they are significantly cooler than the rest of the solar surface. While they look small from our vantage point on Earth, these enigmatic structures can be huge — up to 30,000 miles (48,280 kilometers) across, or as wide as the planet Neptune. Sunspots last for a few days or weeks before dissipating.

Site Last Updated June 13, 2011: Vesta is the second-most-massive object in the entire asteroid beltafter the dwarf planet Ceres. Vesta was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers on March 29, 1807 and named after the Roman virgin goddess of home and hearth, Vesta.
Currently Vesta in transiting in Aquarius and relates to the principle of focus and committment
In Aquarius, Vesta can also reflect rebellion against authority figures .

Surface of Vesta Shows Dark Region

Site Last Updated June 13, 2011: Yesterday's Scorpio Moon was filled with mysteries and secrets that needed to be uncovered by all of us.
One of those mysteries are the massive waves of plasma which roared off the sun (June 7th) only to rain back down on the solar surface.
As frequencies increase with the final phase of the Universal Underworld and the reflected by the building tensions of Uranus now in Aries TSQ Pluto (Capricorn) and Saturn (Libra)
even NASA admits regarding the Sun's recent uptick with Solar Cycle 24: "We're seeing things we've never seen before,"

Tom Bogdan: 'The sky at night stops me from sleeping'

NASA: "We're Seeing Things We've Never Seen Before" Massive Plasma Waves Sweep The Sun
A huge storm on the sun this past week unleashed what some have called the most massive eruption of solar plasma ever seen. NASA astronomers said the huge June 7 solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, probably wasn't the biggest ever, but it is notable both for its size and its odd behavior, as massive waves of plasma roared off the sun only to rain back down on the solar surface.
"We're seeing things we've never seen before," said Phillip Chamberlin, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and a deputy project scientist on the agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite. "It's a really exciting event. There are a lot of exceptions to it."
Since scientists know how these waves initiated by a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability they can use this information to help solve an enduring mystery of why the corona is thousands of times hotter than originally expected.
"One of the biggest questions about the solar corona is the heating mechanism," says solar physicist Leon Ofman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Catholic University. "The corona is a thousand times hotter than the sun's visible surface, but what heats it up is not well-understood. People have suggested that waves like this might cause turbulence which cause heating, but now we have direct evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz waves."
Ofman and his Goddard colleague, Barbara Thompson, spotted these waves in images taken on April 8, 2010. These were some of the first images caught on camera by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a solar telescope with outstanding resolution that launched on February 11, 2010 and began capturing data on March 24 of that year.
That these "surfer" waves exist in the sun at all is not necessarily a surprise, since they do appear in so many places in nature including, for example, clouds on Earth and between the bands of Saturn.
"The waves we're seeing in these images are so small," says Thompson, the deputy project scientist for SDO. "They're only the size of the United States."

Site Last Updated June 10, 2011: Heading toward the next eclipse - a Full Moon in Sagittarius conjunct the N Node on June 15th.
Sagittarius is about reaching out to boundaries far away including the recesses of space.
it appears that Elenin is one of the comets which will be around to influence us.
It appears that the debate between conspiracy theorists and astronomers on what really will be th effect of Comet Elenin is heating up.

Comet Elenin: Just Passing By

Tracking Comet Elenin 2011
Update Comet Elenin June 2011, this will give you a better sense of where and when you can actually see this comet with a modest telescope or nightvision.

It starts out innocently enough: a small speck against a field of background stars, barely noticeable in the image data. But… it’s a speck that wasn’t there before. Subsequent images confirm its existence – there’s something out there. Something bright, something large, and it’s moving through our solar system very quickly. The faint blur indicates that it’s a comet, an icy visitor from the outermost reaches of the solar system. And it’s headed straight toward Earth.
Exhaustive calculations are run and re-run. Computer simulations are executed. All possibilities are taken into consideration, and yet there’s no alternative to be found; our world will face a close encounter with a comet in mere months’ time. Phone calls are made, a flurry of electronic messages fly between computer terminals across the world, consultations are held with top experts in the field. We are unprepared… what can we do? What does this mean for civilization as we know it? What will this speeding icy bullet from outer space do to our planet?
The answer? Nothing.

Site Last Updated June 9 , 2011: A bit of synchronicity with today's story from an astrological perspective is that asteroid Ceres (nurturing life) was opposing today's Virgo Moon (perfectionism) this morning.

Cosmic Cookers: Asteroids May Have Nurtured Seeds of Life
The chemical building blocks that make life possible on Earth may have aged to perfection in asteroids, according to a new study.
The research, an analysis of a meteorite that fell on a frozen Canadian lake in 2000, reveals a surprisingly large variation in the organic chemicals found among different chunks of the meteorite. The results suggest the emergence of life on Earth may have depended on a "Goldilocks" situation in asteroids in the few million years after the solar system formed, said study researcher Christopher Herd of the University of Alberta.
"Not too hot, not too cold, just right," Herd told LiveScience. "And not too much water alteration and not too little… If you take that material and deliver it to the early Earth, then you deliver what you need for life." [7 Theories on the Origin of Life]

Site Last Updated June 8 , 2011: We are still in shock over yesterday's incredible eruption of the monster solar prominence and ensuing solar flare
A quick aside is that today we are beginning a First Qtr. Moon Phase which marks a critical time period
since the Moon in scientific Virgo squares Sun in super communicative Gemini expect to see a plethora of websites along with more video of the June 7th Solar Flare.

Geomagnetic Storm Warning

Sunspot complex 1226-1227 produced a strong M2-class flare on June 7th at 0641 UT. More eruptions may be in the offing.
NOAA forecasters estimate a greater than 25% chance of geomagnetic storms on June 9th. That's when a CME from the magnificent flare of June 7th is expected to deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Site Last Updated June 7 , 2011: This solar blast which included an M2-class flare, S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME was right on time with the start of the 3rd. Night of the Universal Underworld.
At the time of this eruption - Aquarius the sign of the unexpected was rising with rulers Saturn (in 7th house) and Uranus (in 1st house) were in an explosive opposition.
Plus Vesta-Pallas in Aquarius were opposing the Moon in solar Leo to add to the results.

Major Solar Eruption - M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM
This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. The blast produced an M2-class solar flare, an S1-class radiation storm, and a massive CME. A recording of the blast from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory ranks as one of the most beautiful and dramatic movies of the SDO era.
Video available here -
And Here:

A video with commentary from solar physicist C. Alex Young of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows material splashing back to the stellar surface.
"I've never seen material released this way before," he says in the video. "It looks like someone kicked a clod of dirt in the air--an amazing, amazing event."

AURORA WATCH: High-latitude sky watchers in both hemispheres should be alert for auroras during the late hours of June 8th or 9th when a CME from today's eruption could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field.

Site Last Updated June 5 , 2011: The Leo Moon has really kicked off this supercharged solar blast almost 25 Earth-diameters high.
Moon squared Jupiter for major expansion and will continue with squares to Mars and Venus tomorrow.

Hundreds Witness Solar Blast of Hot Plasma
"On June 5th, while displaying the sun to 500+ kids and their families at the Virginia Highlands Summer Festival in Atlanta, GA, we witnessed an incredible display of solar activity,"
reports amateur astronomer Stephen W. Ramsden. "A magnetically supercharged chunk of hot plasma was ejected from the limb of the sun right before our eyes. It just hung there over the stellar surface almost 25 Earth-diameters high. The event was breathtaking to watch and really got the attendees interested in our nearest star."
The blast off

Site Last Updated June 5 , 2011: Besides Noctilucent clouds and auroras
can expect an disruptions for these storms?
Lunar transits of course have Leo Moon square Jupiter-Mars and Venus but it will take a lot more than that for any breakdown of the grid system.

Geomagnetic Storms in Progress
A sharp gust of solar wind hit Earth's magnetic field at approximately 20:30 UT on June 4th, sparking a G2-class geomagnetic storm.
More solar flares are in the offing as we examine some of the latest images from SOHO

Site Last Updated June 2 , 2011: Even though visiibility for yesterday's New Moon Eclipse was in the Northern Latitudes
the effects were felt around the globe.
A chart set for time of greatest eclipse (9:16:11 PM CEDT - 2:00) in , Tromsø, Norway has Scorpio rising with Fixed signs at all the angles for lingering effects.
Ruler of the Scorpio rising chart Mars now in Taurus along with Venus-Mercury on the 7th house not only demonstrates the power of partners vs. enemies
but also with Sun-Moon in Gemini intercepted offers a new awakening for the planet!
"The eclipse was also seen from Siberia, northern China, remote parts of Alaska and Canada, and Iceland," writes Fred Espenak of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where the eclipse circumstances were calculated. "Greatest eclipse occurs at 21:16 Universal Time on June 1st. At that time, an eclipse of magnitude 0.601 will be visible from the Arctic coast of western Siberia as the midnight sun skirts the northern horizon."

ECLIPSE OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN:
A solar eclipse at midnight? It's not only possible, it actually happened last night.
On June 1st, the new Moon passed in front of the midnight sun above the Arctic circle, producing a partial eclipse of exquisite beauty. Bernt Olsen photographed the event from Sommarøy, Tromsø, Norway:

"A rain shower threatened to spoil the show, but just before midnight the clouds parted and I got a fairly clear shot of the eclipse," says Olsen. "I'm glad I did, because we won't experience an eclipse like this again for 73 years."

Site Last Updated June 1 , 2011: Right on time with today's Gemini New Moon relating to twins
and findings in distant galaxies with N Node in Sagittarius and S Node in Gemini crossing the Moon.

Twins! Distant Galaxy Looks Like Our Own Milky Way
Almost like a postcard from across the universe, astronomers have photographed a spiral galaxy that could be a twin of our own Milky Way.
The distant galaxy, called NGC 6744, was imaged by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The pinwheel lies 30 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Pavo (The Peacock).
We are lucky to have a bird's-eye view of the spiral galaxybecause of its orientation, face-on, as seen from Earth. It's a dead ringer for our own home in the cosmos, scientists say. [See the Milky Way's galactic twin NGC 6744]

May 2011 - Continued Strong Solar Activity, Beautiful Auroras, Geomagnetic Storms, Brown Dwarfs, ,Sun Diving Comet, Extra-solar discoveries, Comet Elinin, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with Spectacular April 2011 Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
May starts with planetary energies taking us multiple beyond boundaries with a Taurus New Moon May 2nd @11:51 PM PDT or May 3rd @ 2:51 EDT
Solar Eruptions increase
Oceanic quakes and volcanoes are part of the mix.

Then on May 17th. a Major Full Moon in Scorpio @ 27 degrees taking place @ 4:09 AM PDT
Expect planetary changes to be reflected via the magnetosphere and consequent aberrations

Site Last Updated May 27, 2011: The latest discovery burst with Sun in data-oriented Gemini sextile Uranus in pioneering Aries on May 25th.
is yielding so amazing new studies and reports about everything from new pieces of the Milky Way Galaxy to conclusive prove of water present on the Moon.

Moon's Interior Wet As Earth's, Rocks Indicate
Just when we were starting to get over the shock that parts of the moon's surface are wetter than the Sahara Desert, a new study reports that the lunar interior is sopping wet, too.
Last October, scientists announced that a crater near the lunar south pole is jam-packed with water ice, likely holding a billion gallons of the stuff. Now, new research has found that the moon's insides are likely as wet as the Earth's upper mantle, the region just below its miles-thick surface crust.
This discovery, made by studying pieces of lunar magma hurled to the surface by ancient volcanic eruptions, comes as a big surprise.
The prevailing theory of the moon's formation holds that it coalesced from pieces of the early Earth blasted into space by a collision with a Mars-size object long ago. Scientists had thought the massive energy produced by such a titanic impact would have baked the water out of the bits that became the moon. But that appears not to be the case. [Video: How The Moon Was Made]

Site Last Updated May 24, 2011: This mighty fireball surprised viewers on May 20th @ 10:47 PM EDT when Sagittarius was rising with the N Node.
Jupiter in expansive fire sign Aries was the chart's ruler and trine he ascendant.
while Uranus - the cosmic shocker in explosive Aries was TSQ Pluto (first house) and Saturn (10th house) adding a whole new element to the comets fragments.

Comet Fireball Over Georgia
Bright fireballs appear somewhere on Earth every day. Most are caused by rocky asteroids. On Friday, May 20th, however, a less common object struck. Sky watchers in the southeastern USA watched a big but fragile piece of comet break apart in Earth's atmosphere. The resulting fireball was the brightest meteor observed in nearly 3 years by NASA's all-sky network of meteor cameras.

Residents of Atlanta, Georgia, and surrounding areas were startled on Friday night, May 20th around 10:47 EDT, when an object brighter than a full Moon streaked across the southern sky. "It appears to have been a disintegrating piece of comet," reports Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office.
In a 1/3-speed video, recorded by a NASA fireball camera at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, GA, fragments can be seen flying away from the bright exploding core.

Site Last Updated May 23, 2011: New discoveries and innovative are reflected by the Sun in data oriented Gemini sextile Uranus in pioneering Aries.
Consider the focus on a "spiral arm" being photographed
and that Gemini relates to arms and hands astrologically and with the Sun (Gemini) also square Neptune (images) more of these structures will be visible.

Arm's Trace: Astronomers Spot a Newfound Piece of the Milky Way Galaxy
A looping spiral arm of gas some 70,000 light-years away seems to preserve the galaxy's spiral symmetry
Fantastically detailed, visually arresting photographs of Andromeda, a spiral galaxy that lies 2.5 million light-years from Earth, have been available for years. But getting a full panorama of our own Milky Way Galaxy is considerably more difficult. Nestled in the thick of the galaxy, we are unable to see it from the outside. For astronomers trying to map out the Milky Way's structure in detail, the exercise is a bit like trying to figure out what one's own face looks like—without the aid of a mirror.
That means that new discoveries are still possible in our own cosmic backyard, a fact made apparent by a new study that identifies a previously unseen spiral arm of the Milky Way. The newfound structure, some 70,000 light-years away, may be the continuation of a major, previously known spiral arm, part of which is visible much closer to Earth. Thomas Dame and Patrick Thaddeus of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announce the finding in a study that is set to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astronomers can map distant galactic structures using telescope dishes operating in the microwave or radio bands that can identify spectral signatures of specific atoms or molecules. Dame and Thaddeus found the new appendage by tracing the well-known Scutum–Centaurus arm to where it ought to extend on the far side of the galaxy. Something tantalizing showed up in telescope surveys that had scanned the galaxy for microwave emissions from hydrogen atoms. But with so much hydrogen in the galaxy, discrete structures can be hard to identify, and false positives abound. "You can pick up all kinds of patterns in the wallpaper" with hydrogen, Dame says.

font size=2>Site Last Updated May 17, 2011: Right on time for the massive Full Moon with Mars conjunct Mercury and Venus
Since Mars is the ruler of the Scorpio Moon, expect some major eruptions.

Solar Filament Erupts Pushing Out Plasma - CME Earth Directed

A magnetic filament exploded away from the sun on May 17th and propelled a cloud of plasma into space.
The cloud (a CME) was not aimed directly at Earth, but it could deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field during the late hours of May 19th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

font size=2>Site Last Updated May 14, 2011: With the transition of Mars then Venus then Mercury and finally Jupiter on June 4th into down to the facts Taurus,
there is little doubt that Comet Elenin is approaching our solar system comimg closer.

ELENIN IS COMING LATEST PICTURES MAY-2011

font size=2>Site Last Updated May 14, 2011: It seems that the Jupiter-Mercury-Venus alignment is fiery-super solar Aries has a counterpart on our local helios.

Huge Solar Prominences Appear
ot a solar telescope? Point your optics at the limb of the sun. Observers around the world are reporting a pair of prominences big enough to see in startling clarity through safely-filtered amateur instruments. Here are some scorching snapshots: #1, #2, #3, #4 .

font size=2>Site Last Updated May 11, 2011: Lots of planetary action now with Mercury-Venus-Jupiter all aligned in "solar" Aries and ruler Mars making a collison like ingress into fixed Taurus

Sundiving Comet Hits the Sun Producing Solar Flare
A comet just discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov dove into the the sun today and didn't survive.
a href ="http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2011/11may11/sundiver.gif?PHPSESSID=8dddp27uh2monbeaeimef56n24">Click here to view a movie of the death plunge recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory--and check back for updates in the hours ahead.

font size=2>Site Last Updated May 10, 2011: Today is the start of the mid-point of the 2nd Night of the Universal Underworld
ruled by Tonatiuh, the Sun God particularly appropriate with the Aries lineup of Mercury-Venus-Jupiter and Mars
New sunspot 1210 fired off with Sagittarius rising and the N Node on the Ascendant indicating more to come
since Jupiter the chart's ruler was in Aries in the 3rd with an applying trine from the moon in fiery Leo

The Sun is Awakening Big Time with new Sunspot 1210 and an explosion
Here is an ultraviolet image of the explosion's aftermath

A sunspot located just behind the sun's eastern limb is crackling with flares. A C5-class eruption during the waning hours of May 9th hurled a spectacular coronal mass ejection into space: View the movie.
Extreme ultraviolet images of the explosion's aftermath taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory are a must-see. Earth was not in the line of fire this time, but the active region is approaching the Earthside of the sun, so future blasts could be geoeffective. Stay tuned.

Site Last Updated May 5, 2011: This news about cosmic rays from the Vela Supernova comes on a day when the far out North Node in Sagittarius is opposing the Gemini Moon.
As I said the Moon also sextiles Mercury, Venus and Jupiter part of the Aries alignment allowing people to understand the power of cosmic rays.
Besides the South Pole we are seeing similar pattern has been seen over the northern skies by the Milagro observatory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the Tibet Air Shower array in Yangbajain.

Mystery Cosmic Rays Zapping South Pole -- "From the Neutron Star of the Vela Supernova?"
Cosmic rays zapping the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations, rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Cosmic ray "hotspots" have also been seen in the northern skies too, yet there is no source close enough to produce this strange pattern.
"We don't know where they are coming from," says Stefan Westerhoff of the University of Wisconsin, who used the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole with a team of colleagues to create the most comprehensive map to date of the arrival direction of cosmic rays in the southern skies.
IceCube detects muons produced by neutrinos striking ice, but it also detects muons created by cosmic rays hitting Earth's atmosphere. These cosmic ray muons can be used to figure out the direction of the original cosmic ray particle.
Between May 2009 and May 2010, IceCube has detected 32 billion cosmic-ray muons, with a median energy of about 20 teraelectronvolts (TeV). These muons revealed, with extremely high statistical significance, a southern sky with some regions of excess cosmic rays ("hotspots") and others with a deficit of cosmic rays ("cold" spots)

Site Last Updated May 5, 2011: Everything is converging from near and far as the Moon's Nodes cross the Gemini Moon
Two views of Comet Elenin are offered: one less than spectacular and the other a comet of doom.
Wild prophecies and pronouncement the Elenin doom or just another body entering our solar stystem?
Yes the Moon which sextiles Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars adds to the forward moving Aries alignment
That freakin pioneering transit with Mars-Jupiter-Mercury and Venus all direct and TSQ Saturn and Pluto
Will Elenin's next fatal alignment be around the June 1st Solar Eclipse? or Will it just fizzle

Comet Elenin: Preview of a coming attraction
So you've got a modest-sized icy dirtball that is getting no closer than 35 million kilometers," said Yeomans. "It will have an immeasurably miniscule influence on our planet. By comparison, my subcompact automobile exerts a greater influence on the ocean's tides than comet Elenin ever will."

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Bad News from NASA: Proof That Comet Elenin Is Affecting Earth
This is going to be the most extraordinary communication so fasten your seatbelts; we are in for a rough ride. I have known in my heart for months that I would have to make a communication like this but had no idea it would be this soon. Back in January, while investigating the underground city that is alleged to have been built under the new Denver Airport, reported on by the former governor Jesse Ventura, I put the puzzle together and came to the conclusion that a planetary event was in store for us in 2012.
Today I am presenting rock solid information; it does not get any better when NASA is your source. What you are about to read and see is happening. Last night, looking at a NASA mathematical model of comet Elenin, I found out that a large celestial body has already penetrated the solar system and is on course for a near and possibly horrific encounter with the earth in the fall of 2011. What we do not know is the size and mass of comet Elenin though I have no doubt that it is known by the authorities.
Elenin is presently being tracked as it goes through the asteroid belt on its way into the inner solar system. I am truly sorry to have to be the bearer of such grave and threatening news but the source, NASA, is impeccable. We have an incoming mass (what might possibly be a neutron star) coming in and it will do a hard turn around the sun like any comet would, crossing and coming in between Mercury and Venus before starting its journey back out. On its way out it will cross our bow, meaning it will pass very close to the earth and the earth will pass behind it, plowing into its tail.
crossing and coming in between Mercury and Venus before starting its journey back out. On its way out it will cross our bow, meaning it will pass very close to the earth and the earth will pass behind it, plowing into its tail.
What s Coming - April 26 2011 Update.flv

Site Last Updated May 4, 2011:

Celestial Trails over Greece
Explanation: If you watch the horizon at just the right place and at just the right time, you can witness some spectacular juxtapositions between Earth and sky. In the below video, stars, the Moon, and even a partially eclipsed Sun were recorded rising and setting over photogenic landmarks in Greece.
The inspiring video created by Chris Kotsiopoulos. features effects on star trails that are pretty but somewhat deceiving, as stars will typically remain at nearly the same brightness as the Earth turns beneath them. Also, the time lapse nature of part of the video causes clouds to appear to jump about and fade in an unfamiliar fashion. Several stills of these scenes have appeared on APOD previously, including the partial solar eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon, cloud and star trails over a deserted church, and star trails over an old ship. Other foreground venues include an old church in Peloponnese, a stone bridge in Ioannina, a Frankish Castle in Euboea, and a picturesque sunset above Lycabettus Hill, Athens.

Sky in motion

Site Last Updated May 3, 2011: Let's take another look at this Yahoo/Space.com story of the current planetary alignment
but from an astrological point of view.
This grouping or stellium of Aries planets was at it's peak around April 30th with the Moon also speeding thru Aries.
So now we have Neptune in early Pisces, followed by Uranus in early Aries, then Venus-Mercury-Jupiter and Mars all in the warrior sign Aries.
This alignment particularly Venus-Mercury-Jupiter and Mars relate to the need for freedom of expression, thoughts and action.
On May 11th Venus meets Mercury meets Jupiter to brighten the dawn sky.
with this combination, the only planet that will try to put on the brakes is Saturn now opposing in Libra.
Impulse control, sudden reactions, violent movements and a decidingly pioneering attitude will prevail.

Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky
If you get up any morning for the next few weeks, you’ll be treated to the sight of all the planets except Saturn arrayed along the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky.
For the last two months, almost all the planets have been hiding behind the sun, but this week they all emerge and are arrayed in a grand line above the rising sun. Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are visible, and you can add Uranus and Neptune to your count if you have binoculars or a small telescope.

Sky Map of six planets and the waning crescent moon arrayed in the dawn sky on Saturday April 30, as seen from Los Angeles, California.

Site Last Updated May 2, 2011: Geomagnetic storms will continue into May with the Aries Stellium led by Mars not changing till May 11th.

May Day Auroras Rock the Northern Hemisphere.
A solar wind stream that hit Earth's magnetic field during the weekend sent Northern Lights spilling over the Canadian border into the USA.
"Magnificent May Day auroras lit up the night sky over Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on May 1st and into the wee morning hours of May 2nd," reports Tony Wilder. "They shimmered and flickered and waved from the bottom up as green swirls danced from left to right." Northern Lights were also spotted over Lake Superior in Michigan

Site Last Updated May 1, 2011: Solar winds create beautiful panes of light as Mercury and Venus travel together for a creative conjunction on May 9th.

Spectacular Auroras Start May
It has been a good weekend for northern sky watchers. A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field on Saturday, sparking two days of auroras around the Arctic Circle. In Alberta, Canada, this morning, the month of May began with a psychedelic sky:

"I have never seen such vibrant purples before," says photographer Zoltan Kenwell of White Court, Alberta. "Cloud cover made me miss a lot of the display, but what I did get --WOW! This was a full weekend!"
High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras. The solar wind continues to blow at high speed, and NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% chance of more geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours.

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April 2011 - A Month of Hyper-Intense Solar Activity, Auroras, Geomagnetic Storms, Brown Dwarfs, , a New Comet, Extra-solar discoveries, Comet Elinin, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with Spectacular April 2011 Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
April starts with explosive energies taking us beyond boundaries into new frontiers with an Aries New Moon April 3rd. @ 7:32 AM PDT
Solar Eruptions increase
Oceanic quakes and volcanoes ala Neptune/Psoideon changing signs into Pisces on April 4th.

Then on April 17th. a Major Full Moon in Libra @ 28 degrees taking place @7:44 PM PDT

On May 2nd. we have a Spectacular New Moon in Taurus @ 13 degrees taking place @ 11: 51 PM PDT
One day before we have an incredible line-up of planets in Aries (Uranus-Moon-Venus-Mercury-Mars and Jupiter)
April means Plasma Waves, Auroras, More Comet Elinin, Lyrid Meteors, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

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Site Last Updated April 28, 2011: The May 6th Eta Aquarids meteor shower will occur right after the Taurus new moon on May 3rd. which is perfect for viewing.
It appears that 2011 is a major year for comets with Elenin Honda and Levy coming into our solar system.

Eta Aquarids Meteor Coming on May 6th.
Mark your calendar. On May 6th, Earth will pass through a stream of debris from Halley's comet, producing a mild but beautiful meteor shower known as the "eta Aquarids."
ScienceCasts: Meteors from Halley's Comet

Site Last Updated April 28, 2011: Even though forecasters estimate a 35% chance of geomagnetic activitty when the solar wind arrives on April 30th
expect some major disturbances with the Aries Stellium to peak at that time.

Major Coronal Hole developing in the Sun's Atmosphere
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring a hole in the sun's atmosphere--a "coronal hole." It is the dark region circled in this extreme ultraviolet image taken during the early hours of April 28th:
Coronal holes are places where the sun's magnetic field opens up and allows the solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this coronal hole is expected to reach Earth on April 30th-May 1st. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of geomagnetic activitty at that time.

Site Last Updated April 27, 2011: Get ready because the Aries transits peak on April 30th and May 1st . as the Moon joins Uranus-Venus-Mercury-Mars and Juptier all in the "solar sign" of Aries.

Year One of the Solar Dynamics Observatory
Over the past year, the Sun has gone from one of quietest periods in decades to the ramping up of activity marking the beginning of Solar Cycle 24. And with impeccable timing, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has been there, in orbit, capturing every moment with a level of detail never-before possible. The mission has returned unprecedented images of solar flares, eruptions of prominences, and the early stages of coronal mass ejections (CMEs). It was on April 21st, 2010 that the SDO scientists were able to reveal the first images from their fledgling satellite, and now, one year on, who has not loved the intricate details of old Sol that we’ve been able to see in the imagery and video SDO has provided!

Site Last Updated April 23, 2011: For those who follow astrological transits, Saturday April 23rd was anything but quiet
with the Moon triggering squares to Saturn, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter
plus Mercury finally moved direct in Aries all relating to both explosive and pioneering attitudes.

B-class eruption rocks
On the Richter Scale of solar flares, B-class eruptions are weak and generally considered boring. Really? Consider the following B-class eruption recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on April 23rd:

This blast hurled hundreds of thousands of tons of plasma above the stellar surface with a power akin to millions of atomic bombs. The only thing more amazing than the blast was its aftermath. For all that power, the explosion was insufficient to break the plasma free from the sun's grasp. Magnetic fields arcing above underlying sunspot 1193 held tight to the expanding gas and pulled it back down with a dynamic double bounce.

Site Last Updated April 22, 2011: The Moon heads into Capricorn to trigger more solar action with squares to the Aries stellium of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Uranus and newly arrived Venus Expect some larger solar than M-class flares.
Potential for X-Class is on the rise heading toward April 30th. - Expect it!

Daily Sun: 22 Apr 11

Sunspot 1195 poses a growing threat for M-class solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMI

Site Last Updated April 22, 2011: This April should provide a spectacular display with Venus conjunct Uranus in Aries @ 10:29 PM EDT on April 22nd
When fiery Sagittarius is rising and trine both planets to illuminate an awesome meteor shower.

Lyrid Meteor Showers Rock
Visual Data Outlook

Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on Friday morning, April 22nd, with as many as 20 meteors per hour. Unfortunately, bright moonlight will interfere with the display.

Check here for the full story about the Lyrids
Every year in late April Earth passes through the dusty tail of Comet Thatcher (C/1861 G1), and the encounter causes a meteor shower--the Lyrids. This year the shower peaks on Friday morning, April 22nd. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is during the hours before dawn. Forecasters expect 10 to 20 meteors per hour visible from dark-sky sites.
Lyrid meteors appear to stream from the bright star Vega in the constellation Lyra:
In fact, Lyrids have nothing to do with Vega. The true source of the shower is Comet Thatcher. Every year in April, Earth plows through Thatcher's drawn-out dusty tail. Flakes of comet dust, most no bigger than grains of sand, strike Earth's atmosphere traveling 49 km/s (110,000 mph) and disintegrate as streaks of light--meteors! Lyrid meteors are typically as bright as the stars in the Big Dipper, which is to say of middling brightness. But some are more intense, even brighter than Venus. These "Lyrid fireballs" cast shadows for a split second and leave behind smokey debris trails that linger for minutes.

Image taken by Martin Popek on Apr. 21, 2011
Location:Nýdek, Czech republic

Site Last Updated April 20, 2011: This particular geomagnetic storm was probably generated from sunspot 1190-1193 complex
but with new emerging sunspot complex 1195-1196 crackling with C-flares expect more solar flares to disrupt the magnetosphere.
Astrologically more solar energy generated from Aries when Venus meets Uranus on April 22nd.
This Easter Weekend should be a blaze with auroras as the Moon in Aquarius squares the Sun in Taurus on April 24th

CME sparks an Aurora Watch in Northern Hemisphere
A slow-moving CME could hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of April 21st, sparking a new round of high-latitude auroras. NOAA forecasters estimate a 30% chance of geomagnetic activity. Aurora alerts: voice, text.

On April 20th, photographer Zoltan Kenwell witnessed the effects of the solar wind over the Alberta prairies:

"With the moon at 90%, it was a very bright night, but the aurora borealis was even brighter," says Kenwell. "Most of the snow on the Alberta prairies around St. Paul has finally melted.

Site Last Updated April 17, 2011:The Sun continues to be active on this Sprouting Grass Moon (@ 7:44 PM PDT ) with Sun-Aries/Moon-Libra Axis
a time when the Sun has been active as indicated in the photo below taken on April 17th - reflecting the Libra Aesthtetic and need for beauty
So here we have it the magnetic canopy of sunspot complex 1191-1193 is ready to eject some M Class Flares.
t's been almost a year since NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory began taking pictures of the sun. As the first anniversary of First Light approaches on April 21st, researchers are taking stock of the observatory's many accomplishments. One of the most profound results turns out to be aesthetic: the sun is more beautiful than anyone imagined. Consider the following extreme ultraviolet image, taken on April 17th, of the magnetic canopy of sunspot complex 1191-1193:

This stunning snapshot is actually routine material for SDO. The observatory produces a daily torrent of beauty that, even now, mission scientists haven't grown used to. Normally unflappable researchers are frequently caught staring slack-jawed at SDO movies. And when they're done, they don't have the vocabulary to describe what they have seen. Many of the phenomena SDO catches have no textbook names. SDO's starscapes may turn out to be as prized to poets, artists, and writers as they are to no-nonsense solar physicists. See for yourself.

Site Last Updated April 17, 2011: Besides all the tension, tornadoes and major Karmic changes activated with today's Full Moon @ 27 Libra 44
we the moon sextile the Moon's Nodes in Sag.(near the Galactic Center) and Gemini (dissemination of information.)
The game has changed with the Unity Wave, we are not just in the game of empire, corporate greed, alien wars but are now part of the entire universal change beyond war.
Nassim Haramein like Carl Johan Calleman is helping us awaken to a larger universe

Nassim Haramein 32/45 speaks of how volcanoes on earth and other planets are black holes/portals for UFO's
Nassim helps unlock the truth to Sacred geometry, fractals, the Mayan calendar and 2012, Crop Circles, cabalistic traditions, chakras, Sun Gods, God. Jesus and Freemasonry (more specifically, the Knights of Templar).

Site Last Updated April 16, 2011: Sudden disturbances relate to Uranus and on early April 16th the Moon recently enetered Libra to square Uranus first setting off disturbances.
then all day on the 16th into today we are seeing disruptions of many kinds via the SUN.

SUN-EARTH CONNECTION:
Even a small solar flare can reach out and touch the Earth. On April 16th, sunspot 1190 produced a relatively minor C5-class flare.
X-rays from the distant explosion broke apart molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere, creating a wave of ionization over Europe. Researcher Rob Stammes detected the sudden ionospheric disturbance or "SID" using a very low frequency radio receiver at the Polar Light Center in Lofoten, Norway:

Site Last Updated April 14, 2011: It is no secret with or without NASA's verification, Solar Cycle 24 is rocking big time.
For us astrologers it was Jupiter entering Aries on January 22nd. that really set things in motion.
New sunspots appearing almost daily.
Sunspot 1190 has a beta-gamma magnetic field that harbors energy for Earth-directed M-class flares

Solar Activity Heats Up Big Time
No, it's not your imagination. Solar activity really is picking up, bringing an end to a century-class solar minimum. Get the full story from Science@NASA.
As 2011 unfolds, sunspots have returned and they are crackling with activity. On February 15th and again on March 9th, Earth orbiting satellites detected a pair of "X-class" solar flares--the most powerful kind of x-ray flare. The last such eruption occurred back in December 2006.

Site Last Updated April 12, 2011: After the monster CME was launched on April 9th we finally have a high-speed solar wind stream rocking the Earth's magnetic field.
Obviously with the current Aries Solar Stellium in motion with Uranus-Mars-Jupiter-Mercury retro-Sun all in TSQ to Saturn (Libra) and Pluto (Capricorn)
these magnetic storms will continue big time.

Major Geomagnetic Storm in Progress
A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, sparked by a high-speed solar wind stream which is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
Shawn Malone sends this picture, taken before sunrise on April 12th, from Marquette, Michigan:

"I coaxed myself out of bed around 4am and was rewarded by a lightshow!" says Malone. "The auroras had no problem shining through the light pollution. I think the sun IS waking up. I watched the Northern Lights until the sunlight wiped them out."

Site Last Updated April 12, 2011: Finally that monster filament measuring more than 700,000 km from end to end broke off.
This awesome eruption began @ 1:43:56 AM UT with Capricorn rising and Pluto near the ascendant
the chart's ruler Saturn TSQ Mars-Jupiter-Mercury all in Aries
This happened on the day when Mars was in a exact square to Pluto

Solar Filament Eruption April 12th 2011

Site Last Updated April 9, 2011: This CME was launched around 3:39:24 AM UT with Aquarius rising @ 21 degrees
with ruler Uranus in the first in Aries square Pluto
The solar explosion happened right before Pluto stationed today to move retrograde.
Effects could be quite disruptive in synch with Mars square Pluto on April 11th. when it will arrived.

Incoming CME is Earth Directed!
Newly-arriving data from NASA's STEREO probes suggest that a coronal mass ejection (CME) might be heading toward Earth. The source of the cloud appears to be sunspot complex 1185-1186, which experienced an episode of magnetic instability during the early hours of April 9th. Stay tuned for updates to this preliminary analysis.
STEREO-A,
STEREO-B.

Site Last Updated April 9, 2011: This major filament of magnetism which could collapse and trigger some major explosions is timed a powerful Mars (Aries) square to Pluto (Capricorn)
and today's Pluto stationing retrograde an intense combo.
Collapse and transfromation are the watch words for Pluto just like explosions relate to Mars in Aries.
The name Hyder flare is given to a flare that occurs away from an active region or sunspot group and that is associated with the sudden disappearance of a dark filament.

Giant Solar Filament Could Produce a Hyder Flare
A magnificent filament of magnetism is curling around the sun's southeastern quadrant today. Measuring more than 700,000 km from end to end, the vast structure is about twice as long as the separation between Earth and the Moon. Arrows trace the filament's meandering path in this extreme UV image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

t's not easy for such a filament to remain suspended indefinitely above the stellar surface, and indeed a collapse is possible. Filaments falling onto the sun can trigger explosions called "Hyder flares."
Is one in the offing?

Site Last Updated April 8, 2011: This explosion occurred on March 28th when Sun was square Pluto indicating powerful forces at work here on earth
So now this gamma ray burst which can create black holes is being talked about on April 7th when Mars is about to translate the light from the March 28th square with another square to Pluto on April 11th.
Take not that the blast originatedthe constellation Draco, the Dragon, circles around the North Pole

Powerful Space Explosion May Herald Star's Death By Black Hole
A huge, powerful star explosion detonated in deep space last week — an ultra-bright conflagaration that has astronomers scratching their heads over exactly how it happened.
The explosion may be the death cry of a star as it was ripped apart by a black hole, scientists said. High-energy radiation continues to brighten and fade from the March 28 blast's location, about 3.8 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco.
Astronomers say they've never witnessed an explosion so bright, long-lasting and variable before, according to NASA officials.
The explosion looks like a gamma-ray burst — the most powerful type of explosion in the universe, which usually mark the destruction of a massive star — but the flaring emissions from these dramatic events never last more than a few hours, researchers said. "We know of objects in our own galaxy that can produce repeated bursts, but they are thousands to millions of times less powerful than the bursts we are seeing now," said Andrew Fruchter, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, in a statement today (April 7). "This is truly extraordinary."

Site Last Updated April 7, 2011: Mars was the ruler of the chart set for April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT when the meteo/ fireball was detected
Thus Scorpio rising with ruler Mars conjunct Uranus in Aries in a square to Pluto in Capricorn
thus a bright meteor streaks across the sky.

Tennessee Fireball on April 6th.
Space rocks have landed in Tennessee. That's the conclusion of researchers who recorded a brilliant fireball streaking over the Smoky Mountain state on Wednesday evening. Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office reports: "On April 6th at 8:21:57 CDT, NASA all-sky meteor cameras detected a very bright fireball moving north across the state of Tennessee. First detected 52 miles above the Arnold Air Force base near Tullahoma, the meteor was brighter than crescent Moon and was approximately 2 feet in diameter, with a weight of 200 lbs. It was last recorded 30 miles above the town of Woodbury, Tennessee, moving at a speed of approximately 9 miles per second (32,400 mph)."

Cooke continues: "The NASA Meteoroid Environment Office has reasonable confidence that some fraction of this meteor survived to the ground as one or more meteorites. Calculations are underway to determine the general impact location, which may lie close to the Kentucky border.

Site Last Updated April 3, 2011: This CME was launched around 5;00 AM UT with Pisces rising with ancient ruler Jupiter conjunct the Sun and Moon in Aries opposing Saturn
all this occurred before the exact New Moon @ 2:33 PM PDT.

BRIGHT CME - Not Earth Directed?:
NASA twin STEREO spacecraft observed a spectacular coronal mass ejection launched from the vicinity of decaying sunspot 1176 on April 3rd around 0500 UT. The blast was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, there is a chance that the expanding cloud will deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on or about April 6th. CME movies: STEREO-A, STEREO-B.

2º CME event APRIL 04, 2011.wmv

Site Last Updated April 2, 2011: Saturn and the Sun will be in exact opposition tomorrow @ 4:58 PM PDT or 7:58 PM EDT
This opposition which in tropical astrology involves the Sun in Aries opposing Saturn in LIbra
Saturn of course represents the plant of organization and structure and also justice in Libra.
can be frustrating as things suddenly slow down briefly
a cautious approach is needed as blockages, and losses may occur.

SATURN'S RINGS SURGE IN BRIGHTNESS:
This Sunday, April 3rd, Saturn will be "at opposition"--that is, opposite the sun in the skies of Earth. Whenever this happens, Saturn's rings surge in brightness. Why? Scroll down for the explanation; on the way, inspect this photo taken by Paul Haese of South Australia on March 30th:

This is how Saturn looked through my 14-inch telescope," says Haese. "With opposition so close, the Seeliger effect is really starting to show itself. The rings are much more spectacular than in previous years."

The Seeliger effect, also known as the opposition effect, is what brightens the rings. Saturn's rings are made of frozen chunks ranging in size from dust to houses.
Sunlight directly backscattered from those ice particles causes the ring system to shine even more than usual for a few days around opposition. The exact mechanism involves shadow-hiding and possibly coherent backscattering.

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This is an absolutely awesome video of Auroras created by Terje Sorgjerd
In his efforts to capture one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years.

March 2011 - A Month of Intense Solar Activity, Auroras, Geomagnetic Storms, Brown Dwarfs, , a New Comet, Extra-solar discoveries, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with Spectacular March 2011 Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
March moves us beyond boundaries and opens new frontiers as the Nodes Change into
more adventurous Sagittarius/Gemini
Then the next day is a Piscean New Moon on March 4th @ 12:46 PM PST
You can hear the oceans along with the far reaches of the universe as Uranus closely squares the Nodes.
All adding to a stellium of Pisces planets/bodies: Chiron-Mars-Sun-Moon-Mercury-Uranus all in the dolphin fish sign.
Oceanic quakes and volcanoes ala Neptune/Psoideon the rulers
Then on March 19th. a Major Full Moon in Virgo @ 28 degrees 44 min. taking place @11:10 AM PST
March means Plasma Waves, Auroras, Comet Elinin, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

Site Last Updated March 31, 2011: This video talks about an object which NASA caught on camera while tracking the Sun
With all the buzz about Elenin and Niburu,
it is worth to take note as we head toward some major discoveries
with the upcoming Aries New Moon and Mars-Uranus conjunction on April 3rd.

View from Venus Update - What is NASA Tracking?

Site Last Updated March 29, 2011: A geocentric (earth oriented) chart set for 5:20 AM UT has Pisces rising @ 21 degrees 06
(Sabian symbol: "A man bringing down a new law from Sinai."
So with Pisces rising, ancient ruler Jupiter is in the first house meaning many more discoveries coming
We also have Mars(Pisces) and Uranus-Sun-Jupiter-Mercury all in Aries and in the first house
Mercury in tropical astrology is void of course in pioneering Aries ready to station retrograde tomorrow.

First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
Date acquired: March 29, 2011
Of Interest: Early this morning, at 5:20 am EDT, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER acquired an additional 363 images before downlinking some of the data to Earth. The MESSENGER team is currently looking over the newly returned data, which are still continuing to come down. Tomorrow, March 30, at 2 pm EDT, attend the NASA media telecon to view more images from MESSENGER's first look at Mercury from orbit.
The dominant rayed crater in the upper portion of the image is Debussy. The smaller crater Matabei with its unusual dark rays is visible to the west of Debussy. The bottom portion of this image is near Mercury's south pole and includes a region of Mercury's surface not previously seen by spacecraft. Compare this image to the planned image footprint to see the region of newly imaged terrain, south of Debussy. Over the next three days, MESSENGER will acquire 1185 additional images in support of MDIS commissioning-phase activities. The year-long primary science phase of the mission will begin on April 4, and the orbital observation plan calls for MDIS to acquire more than 75,000 images in support of MESSENGER's science goals.
On March 17, 2011 (March 18, 2011, UTC), MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. The mission is currently in its commissioning phase, during which spacecraft and instrument performance are verified through a series of specially designed checkout activities.

Site Last Updated March 29, 2011: Elenin is here and in the process of making elliptical orbit around our Sun.
Elenin represents somehting both new and unkonown many ways like the coming Aries New Moon on April 3rd.
when Mars-Uranus meet in Aries for shocking consequences

NASA's buzz about comet Elenin
NASA posted a video on their website Buzzroom, bringing attention to a recently discovered comet in our solar system. The comet was discovered by Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin in December last year. Comet Elenin, as it is called, is of particular interest to NASA because of the close proximity to Earth that its orbit will reach during its turn around the sun on its way back out through the solar system later this year.
Most orbits of planets are not circles; they are ellipses. The elongated ends of elliptical orbits are called aphelions and perihelions; the aphelion being the end farthest away from the stationary object being orbited, and perihelion being the end closest to the stationary object. In Elenin's case, its trip around our sun represents the comet's perihelion.
So little is known about this comet because of its relatively recent-discovery status, therefore, information regarding its size, mass, and orbit still vary widely or are missing altogether due to a lack of observational data. Still, astrophysicists have been plugging away at Elenin ever sine it was discovered last year.
NASA’s put a video up in their Buzzroom about Elenin, but it is not there anymore [it is on YouTube]. It was probably pulled down more due to its amateur nature rather than as part of any grand conspiracy theory, but the relative silence by NASA and the mainstream media regarding Elenin has the Armageddon chatrooms abuzz with theories of doom and gloom.

Site Last Updated March 28, 2011: Radio waves relate to Uranus (now in Aries) - Aquarius (current moon) and of course Mercury (now in Aries)
Heading toward the Aries New Moon on April 3rd. we have a Mars-Uranus conjunction in solar Aries - be alert for major solar storms.

The important conclusion to these amazing radio sounds is that: "The sun seems to be entering a new phase of dynamism! "

Solar Radio Storm Rocks!
Did you know sunspots can make noise? Consider the following: "Over the past few days, I have been recording a sustained solar radio storm at 180 MHz," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft of New Mexico. "It consists of Type I radio bursts and sounds like ocean surf. Here is an audio sample from March 27th at 1930 UT.
The sun seems to be entering a new phase of dynamism."

Radio emissions like these are caused by plasma instabilities in the sun's atmosphere above sunspots. With the sun becoming 'radio-active,' it's no coincidence that sunspots are emerging in abundance. Leading the way is behemoth active region AR1176, shown here in a photo taken yesterday by Larry Alvarez of Flower Mound, Texas:

Site Last Updated March 25, 2011: Despite much of the chaotic and challening conditions here on earth, Mercury and Venus are in a positive artistic trine while Mars transits in Pisces the sign of video and imagery.

In The Land Of The Northern Lights by Ole Christian Salomonsen
Oh to be in Norway! Norwegian photographer Ole C. Salomonsen has sorted through more than 50,000 images of the aurora borealis he took during the past six months and assembled the best ones to create a must-see video entitled Land of the Northern Lights.

Site Last Updated March 23, 2011: Does this mean that the Sun-Uranus conjunction in Aries is waking us up to our true origins?
Actually there is some real truth here but expect a major disinfo campaign to promote going to Mars to live as the elite continue to screw up Gaia.

Are Earthlings From Mars? New Tool May Reveal Your Alien Ancestry
it's possible that the family tree of all life on Earth has its roots on Mars — and a new device could put that theory to the test in a few years, researchers say.
Researchers are developing an instrument that would search through samples of Martian dirt, isolating any genetic material from microbes that might be present — bugs that are living or that died relatively recently, within the last million years or so. Scientists could then use standard biochemical techniques to analyze any resulting genetic sequences, comparing them to what we find on Earth.
"It’s a long shot,” said MIT researcher Chris Carr, who's working on the life-detecting device, in a statement. "But if we go to Mars and find life that’s related to us, we could have originated on Mars. Or if it started here, it could have been transferred to Mars." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Either way, Carr added, "we could be related to life on Mars. So we should at least be looking for life on Mars that’s related to us."

Site Last Updated March 23, 2011: Mars transiting in image-oriented Pisces and heading toward an explosive illuminating conjunction with Uranus now in Aries ( perfects on April 3rd.)
might be dangerous for some but is also reflecting magnificent auroras around the higher latitudes.

HIGH-LATITUDE AURORA ALERT
Earth is entering a stream of solar wind blowing ~500 km/s, and the encounter is stirring up geomagnetic activity around the Arctic Circle. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.
Photographer Antony Spencer reports "an amazing display" over Enontekio, Finland, on March 22-23:

"I was leading a group of photographers who have come over from the U.K and we decided to drive inland from Tromsø to beat the clouds," says Spencer. "The display we witnessed was absolutely incredible. I have never seen this much color in the aurora before."

Site Last Updated March 22, 2011: When it comes to impending solar activity, it apears that yesterday's Sun-Uranus conjunction in Aries didn't dissapoint!
Sunspot 1165's burst of ultraviolet radiation was massive and more will be revealed from NASA

Sunspot 1165 Crackling with Mega-Energies
A big sunspot is emerging over the sun's southeastern limb, and it is crackling with activity. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a surge of extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sunspot's magnetic canopy on March 21st:

This appears to be the return of old sunspot 1165, last seen in early March when it formed on the sun's southwestern limb. Since then it has been transiting the far side of the sun, apparently growing in size and restlessness. The potential for trouble will become more clear in the hours ahead as the active region emerges in full. Stay tuned.

Site Last Updated March 19, 2011: At the time of the eruption Sun-Uranus heading close to a conjunction
and opposing the Moon in Virgo

Super-Iconic Solar Eruption on the Super Moon
A huge filament of magnetism and hot plasma blasted off the sun's southwestern limb today, March 19th, at around 1200 UT. The eruption was not Earth-directed, but it was iconic. Just look at this snapshot recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

Many amateur astronomers in Europe witnessed the blast and said it was the biggest one they'd ever seen. This event continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity, and shows anew that Solar Cycle 24 is gaining steam after a long period of relative quiet.

Site Last Updated March 17, 2011: First Comet Honda in August, 2011
then Comet Elenin in September 2011 make their appearances in our solar system
At this point it is too early to speculate on their influence but they both relate to the moon's nodes being in Sagittarius/Gemini mutable and dualistic signs.

A Tale of Two Comets
September 19th, 2011. Two comets come very close and are both equal distance from Earth. Orbit sim ran in hourly steps.

Site Last Updated March 15, 2011: Yesterday's resurgence of M-class solar flares may reflect Monday's Moon TSQ Jupiter-Saturn

M-Class Flare Launches From Sunspot 1169
Current Solar Data (from NOAA)
Formerly quiet sunspot 1169 is suddenly crackling with M-class solar flares. Amateur astronomer Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, California, was video-recording the region on March 14th at 1952 UT when it erupted:

It was not, however, geoeffective. NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft observed a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) emerging from the blast site, but the cloud is expected to sail wide-right of Earth. Because of the sunspot's location near the sun's western limb, future eruptions from AR1169 are likely to miss as well. NOAA forecasters say there is a 40% chance of more wayward M-flares during the next 24 hours.

Site Last Updated March 13, 2011: Now that Uranus has entered Aries, the age of discovery is in full swing
as Uranus joined Mercury and Jupiter in the sign of new explorations-theRam
while the Unity Wave (March 9th) connects/bridges the Universal and Galactic Underworld.
very important ramifications for star and planetary physics, because a brown dwarf is neither a star or a planet, it is an object that bridges the gap between planets and stars.

Ultra-Cold Brown Dwarf Discovered?

Newly found brown dwarf is ultra-cool
Not to be outdone by the Keck II telescope in Hawaii, NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope may have discovered a brown dwarf even cooler than the brown dwarf Discovery News reported on last week.
Keck spotted "CFBDSIR J1458+1013B," a brown dwarf 75 light-years from Earth with a mass of 6-15 times that of Jupiter, and from observations realized that this very dim object must have a temperature of less than 100 degrees Celsius (212 F) -- about as hot as boiling water.
This discovery has very important ramifications for star and planetary physics, because a brown dwarf is neither a star or a planet, it is an object that bridges the gap between planets and stars. For this reason, and because brown dwarfs do not possess enough mass to sustain nuclear fusion in their cores, that they are often dubbed "failed stars."
So, the potential Spitzer discovery of an "ultra-cold" brown dwarf has excited scientists even more. Spitzer's candidate brown dwarf, detected 63 light-years from Earth with a mass of approximately seven times the mass of Jupiter, appears to have a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius (86 F)! This "room temperature" brown dwarf is called "WD 0806-661B."

Site Last Updated March 13, 2011: Today's Moon is in defensive and security conscious Cancer which also relates to walls of protection.
As Uranus (planet of sudden events) continues in Solar Aries we are finally seeing how vulnerable our power grids really are .

A Cautionary Tale: The Quebec Blackout occurred 22 years ago - on March 13, 1989
Today is the 22nd anniversary of the Quebec Blackout.
On March 13, 1989, a geomagnetic storm brought down Hydro-Québec's power grid and blacked out the entire province. Brownouts and other power irregularities were experienced across much of North America.
Today's "smart power grids" are even more vulnerable because they are interconnected by high voltage lines spanning thousands of miles. In good times, this arrangement allows ultilities to guide power wherever it might be needed. During geomagnetic storms, however, it spreads the danger of a blackout far and wide. What we need is a Solar Shield?

Site Last Updated March 13, 2011: Today March 13th. a more imaginative, mellow Cancer Moon still is in a difficult aspect to Uranus-Mercury-Jupiter all in the forceful sign Aries
most relating to CME explosions from the Sun.

Geomagnetic Storms Subsiding
The geomagnetic storms of March 10th and 11th are subsiding. Earth's magnetic field began shaking on March 10th in response to a CME impact; the reverberations continued for more than 24 hours. In Sweden the auroras were so bright, they competed with campfires:

"When I was sitting next to the fire and had the Aurora dancing above me, I felt like it could have been 100 years ago," says photographer Peter Rosén in Sweden's Abisko National Park. "I wonder what people thought when they saw this phenomena in centuries past. Old stories say that the Sami people believed the Aurora was home for the spirits of the dead, and that we should show respect when the lights appeared."

Site Last Updated March 10, 2011: Get ready Uranus (the awakener and planet of sudden change) enters Aries on March 11th @ 4:25 PM
Solar activity is now going ballistic

Update: X Flare Explodes
March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site:

After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity, and shows that Solar Cycle 24 is heating up. NOAA forecasters estimate a 5% chance of more X-flares during the next 24 hours.

Site Last Updated March 9, 2011: We are seeing a major increase with the intensity of solar flares
This X-Flare relates to Mercury entered Aries today to join Jupiter and Uranus will enter Aries on March 11th

Another X-Class Flare Fires Off
Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected an impulsive X1-class solar flare.
The GOES X-ray Flux plot contains 5 minute averages of solar X-ray output in the 1-8 Angstrom (0.1-0.8 nm) and 0.5-4.0 Angstrom (0.05-0.4 nm) passbands. Data from the SWPC Primay GOES X-ray satellite is shown. As of Feb 2008, no Secondary GOES X-ray satellite data is available. Some data dropouts will occur during satellite eclipses.
Below is the image of the X-Class Flare blasting off from Sunspot 1166

Site Last Updated March 8, 2011: This CME exploded while the Moon was still in fiery Aries separating from Jupiter expanding the fire of Aries
astrologically Aries relates to Mars and the Sun and the Sun is exalted in Aries

FAST CORONAL MASS EJECTION:
A coronal mass ejection (CME) exploded from the vicinity of sunspot 1164 during the late hours of March 7th.
It leapt away from the sun traveling ~2200 km/s, making it the fastest CME since Sept. 2005.
A movie of the cloud prepared by Karl Battams of the Naval Research Lab shows a possibly substantial Earth-directed component.
This CME and at least one other could brush against Earth's magnetic field on March 9th or 10th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Site Last Updated March 7, 2011: Solar Cycle 24 has intensified amping up explosive events 10 M-Class and 7 C-Class Flares as Sunspots 1164, 1165, 1166, 1167 and 1169 all fire off.
Long lasting flares
Compare older solar events back to 2009 and up to Jan. 2011 - notice they are getting larger.

Latest Solar Image Here:
The GOES X-ray Flux plot contains 5 minute averages of solar X-ray output in the 1-8 Angstrom (0.1-0.8 nm) and 0.5-4.0 Angstrom (0.05-0.4 nm) passbands. Data from the SWPC Primay GOES X-ray satellite is shown. As of Feb 2008, no Secondary GOES X-ray satellite data is available. Some data dropouts will occur during satellite eclipses.

Site Last Updated March 7, 2011: The Sun (current image) is incredibly active as Jupiter continues it's transit in Aries
and Uranus, the awakener joins the sign of the fiery Ram on March 11th.
As I have said before the astrological Sun in tropical Aries is exalted.

Multiple M-Class Solar Flares Directed At Earth
First we had the magnetic canopy of big sunspot 1166 erupted on March 7th around 1400 UT, producing an M2-class solar flare and a bright coronal mass ejection (CME). Click on the image to launch a movie of the expanding plasma cloud:

The CME was not squarely directed at Earth. Nevertheless, the cloud will probably deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on March 9th or 10th, possibly sparking polar geomagnetic storms.

All total several sunspot regions are currently on the Sun's earth-side: Regions 1163, 1164,1165, 1166, 1167, 1169. It is region 1164 which has recently released four (4) M-class flares.

Site Last Updated March 5, 2011: This appears to be one of those important discoveries reflecting the current Mercury-Uranus conjunction
A time when the hidden (underground chamber) is made visible
While Uranus is TSQ the Nodes in the sign of space exploration Sagittarius and informative Gemini.

Giant Underground Chamber Found on Moon By India's Chandrayaan-1 Spacecraft
The Indian Space Research Organization has discovered a "giant underground chamber" near the Moon's equator, in the Oceanus Procellarum area discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft—more than one mile long (1.7 kilometers) and 393 feet wide (120 meters)-big enough to contain a small lunar city.
The Indian researchers have published a paper detailing their findings and talking about the possibility of making this giant underground vault as a future human base. The settlement would be protected from radiation, micro-meteor impacts, dust and extreme temperature changes by the lava structure that provides a natural environmental control with a nearly constant temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), unlike that of the lunar surface showing extreme variation, maximum of 130 degrees Celsius (266 degrees Fahrenheit) to a minimum of minus 180 degrees Celsius (-292 degrees Fahrenheit) in its diurnal (day-night) cycle.

Site Last Updated March 5, 2011: As Uranus heads toward an ingress into Aries moving closer to Jupiter
solar activity is more apparent and even visible from earth .

Giant Sunspots Seen at Sunrise and Sunstet.
Sunspots 1164 and 1166 are so large, people are noticing them at sunrise and sunset when the sun is dimmed by clouds and haze. The dark cores of these regions are many times wider than Earth, so they are conspicuous even from a distance of 93 million miles. Readers who monitor the spots using properly-filtered backyard telescopes are likely to see flares in action; sunspot 1164 in particular has a delta-class magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class eruptions.

Site Last Updated March 5, 2011: With Pisces so prominent in this New Moon, we experience the mysterious lights of more auroras.

Chad Blakley,
Abisko Turiststation, Abisko National Park, Sweden
Mar. 5, 2011

Site Last Updated March 5, 2011: With Pisces so prominent in this New Moon, the ocean theme and motif is strong
and with Mercury to Meeting Uranus (beyond the solar system) discussion of oceans on exo-planets makes sense.

Assumptions or Theories about Exo-Oceans
Not only may up to 25% of Sun-like stars have Earth-like planets – but if they are in the right temperature zone, apparently they are almost certain to have oceans. Current thinking is that Earth’s oceans formed from the accreted material that built the planet, rather than being delivered by comets at a later time. From this understanding, we can start to model the likelihood of a similar outcome occurring on rocky exoplanets around other stars.
Assuming terrestrial-like planets are indeed common – with a silicate mantle surrounding a metallic core – then we can expect that water may be exuded onto their surface during the final stages of magma cooling, or otherwise out-gassed as steam which then cools to fall back to the surface as rain. From there, if the planet is big enough to gravitationally retain a thick atmosphere and is in the temperature zone where water can remain fluid, then you’ve got yourself an exo-ocean.
We can assume that the dust cloud that became the Solar System had lots of water in it, given how much persists in the left-over ingredients of comets, asteroids and the like. When the Sun ignited some of this water may have been photo-dissociated, or otherwise blown out of the inner Solar System. However, cool rocky materials seem to have a strong propensity to hold water, and in this manner, could have kept water available for planet formation.

Site Last Updated March 4, 2011: Pisces (New Moon today) relates to defeats and failures especially with Mercury, the messenger who is now in Pisces and relates to weather
is heading toward a sudden meeting with Uranus - the Trickster March 9th.
Also of course Chiron-Mars-Sun-Moon all in the fishes sign added to this crash
Sag. was rising @ 2:10 AM PST near the N Node TSQ Uranus and Mercury in Pisces along with S Node Gemini and Juno @ 23 deg. and a wide orb but still in the mix (with relationships.

Rocket Carrying New NASA Climate Satellite Likely Crashed Into Pacific Ocean
This story was updated at 8:58 a.m. ET.
A rocket carrying NASA's newest climate satellite failed to reach orbit today (March 4) and likely crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean after its nose cone failed to separate on time, space agency officials said.
The rocket, a four-stage Taurus XL booster, launched from a seaside pad at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base at about 2:10 a.m. PST (1010 GMT) carrying NASA's $424 million Glory satellite to study Earth's climate.
"We failed to make orbit," NASA launch director Omar Baez told reporters in a somber briefing following the launch failure. "All indications are, the satellite and rocket are in the southern Pacific Ocean somewhere." [Video of NASA's Failed Glory Satellite Launch]
Minutes after liftoff, the Taurus XL rocket's nose cone – a clamshell-like covering around the satellite called a fairing that is designed to separate during the trip into orbit – suffered some sort of failure, NASA officials said.

Site Last Updated March 4, 2011: When the waves were detected (a Piscean term) investigativeScorpio was risingand the entire battalion of collective planets were gathered near the IC.
All led by the God, Uranus @ 29 * 32 ' under water in Pisces with Sun-Moon-Mercury trailing.

Solar Shock Waves from the Farside of the Sun
This morning, March 4th, multiple flares erupted behind the sun's eastern limb. NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft detected a shadowy shock wave around 12:05:59 AM. GMT in the sun's atmosphere
while the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded at least two plasma clouds billowing into space. Today's blasts were not Earth-directed, but future blasts could be geoeffective as the active zone turns toward our planet in the days ahead.

Credit: Frank Olsen,
mail to: franoo@online.no Rekvik outside Tromsø, Norway Jan. 13, 2011

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February 2011 - A Month of Intense Solar Activity, a New Comet, Extra-solar discoveries, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with Spectacular February 2011 Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
February takes us beyond boundaries and opens new frontiers starting with a New Moon on February 2nd @ 6:31 PM PST
this Aquarian lunation is earth shaking and magical with a stellium of Aquarian planets/bodies: Ceres-Sun-Moon-Mars-Neptune-Chiron
Then on February 18th. a Major Full Moon in Leo @ 29 degrees taking place @12:36 AM PST
Februay means Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

Site Last Updated February 24, 2011:Stay Tuned with all Updates on Sunspots , Solar Flares Prominences and Filaments at Solarcycle24.com

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The blast occurred with Pisces rising with Uranus in the extreme 29th degree of sudden change
coming nearer Jupiter in Aries
with ruler Neptune in reception to Uranus expanding in the 12th.

Earth Dodges Spectacular Blast
SPECTACULAR BLAST: The quiet didn't last long. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an M3-class solar flare at 0735 UT on Feb. 24th. The source was an active region located just behind the sun's eastern limb. The eruption produced strong radio emissions, a coronal mass ejection (not Earth directed), and this spectacular picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

Movies of the event are now available. Pick your favorite format: 6 MB Quicktime, 1 MB iPad, 0.5 MB iPhone (more formats will be available soon). The instigating active region will emerge over the eastern limb during the next 24-48 hours, setting the stage for possible geoeffective solar activity. Stay tuned for updates.

Site Last Updated February 20, 2011: The Geo-magnetic storm that was unleashed with the series of solar flares around Feb. 15th.
created sudden ionospheric disturbance (SID) and did interrupt radio waves
astrologically Aquarius relates to radio waves and with Mercury-Mars-Neptune conjunct in Aquarius today we are seeing the effects.
And more are on the way: "More waves of ionization are in the offing as sunspot complex 1161-1162 continues to crackle with M-class solar flares "

WAVES OF IONIZATION hit the upper atmosphere
Waves of ionization are rippling through Earth's upper atmosphere in response to the recent onslaught of solar flares. This affects the propagation of radio signals--suppressing some frequencies and boosting others. By monitoring distant transmitters at a frequency of 23.4 kHz, Rudolf Slosiar of Bojnice, Slovakia detected nearly a dozen sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) on Feb. 18th

"Each surge in signal strength corresponds to a specific solar flare," notes Slosiar. "Individual peaks exactly match events recorded by Earth-orbiting satellites."
More waves of ionization are in the offing as sunspot complex 1161-1162 continues to crackle with M-class solar flares. The next SID could be over your backyard. Do-it-yourself SID monitors are available from Stanford University.

Site Last Updated February 17, 2011: After Solar Cycle 24 recorded it's first X-Class Flare on Feb. 15th we expected some disturbances but this solar eruption could be bigger than anticipated.
Astrolological weather today calls for shocking events
as the Moon (emotional reactions) in Leo opposing Mercury (communications) Mars (physicalactions) and Neptune (Boundaries are ill-defined)

NASA: Huge Solar Flare Jamming Radio And Satellite Signals, Could Affect Electric Grid, Bright Auroras Expected
According to NASA, a large solar eruption triggered a giant geomagnetic storm that has disturbed radio communications and could disrupt electrical power grids, radio and satellite communication in the next days
The calm before the storm. Three CMEs are enroute, all a part of the Radio Blackout events on February 13, 14, and 15 (UTC). The last of the three seems to be the fastest and may catch both of the forerunners about mid to late day tomorrow, February 17. Watch this space for updates on the impending -- G2, possibly periods of G3 -- geomagnetic storming. Watch Today's Space Weather for the most recent activity.
This is a composite image of the Sun at the moment of the X2.2 flare. Image courtesy of SDO (NASA)

Site Last Updated Feb. 17, 2011: We are in a time of shocking "first time events"
most notably the mighty X-Class Flare from Solar Cycle 24 in the early morning hours (UT) of Feb. 15th.
The fireball that streaked across the eastern US on Feb. 14th also qualifies in that category
Uranus the ruler of the shocking Aquarian Stellium is known for first time and unexpected actions.

Rare Daytime Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Eastern U.S.
A rare daytime fireball lit up the sky over much of the eastern United States yesterday (Feb. 14), causing necks to crane and jaws to drop from Maryland to Massachusetts.
The fireball burned bright at around 12:35 p.m. EST (1735 GMT) or so, according to news reports. The wide region of visibility and its unmistakeable brightness make the fireball a unique event for lucky skywatchers, experts say.
"Not very common," said Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist. "Indeed, this was a very rare event."
Rao said he could only remember one other event like yesterday's, when a daytime meteor was widely seen across a broad swathe of land — and that happened in 1972, over the central U.S. and Canada.

Site Last Updated Feb. 16, 2011: Again the revolutionary ideas of the Aquarian transits are shaking up not only government but astronomical beliefs.
"all conventional beliefs about comets have been refuted"
the phenomena of "Sungrazer comets" relates well to the astrology of the next Full Moon in Leo

Electric Comets Re-write Space Science
On January 3rd, 2010, the SOHO satellite captured images of a comet disintegrating as it approached close to the Sun. The comet was what's known as a "Sungrazer" -- comets whose orbits lead them very near the Sun. Although one would not get the impression from science news reports on the comet, Sungrazers present an unresolved puzzle for astronomers.
For many decades, astronomers have held firm to the position that comets are loose aggregations of ice and dust, typically characterized as "dirty snowballs." The very fact that some comets can fly so close to the sun before disintegrating seems a logical challenge to the dirty snowball model. In the recent TPOD "Sungrazers," Steve Smith points out:
Sungrazers tend to reaffirm the Electric Universe opinion about comets....Comet NEAT swung close by the Sun in 2003, apparently initiating a CME eruption that appeared to impact the comet. Astronomers at the time discounted any relationship between the two events because of the size differential between the comet and the Sun. However, several other sungrazers have been associated with violent flares.... When comet 96P/Machholz circled the Sun, it came so close that if it were composed of ice with a small percentage of rock and dust it would have certainly disintegrated. It did not rapidly dissipate, however. Instead, its intense charge differential caused a gigantic CME to discharge from the Sun, blasting out for millions of kilometers.
The truth is, almost all conventional beliefs about comets have been refuted by the landmark comet discoveries. On many occasions on these pages, and now permanently archived on the Thunderbolts Predictions page, we have compared the record of the "dirty snowball" model to the comet model of the Electric Universe. The most memorable of these predictions -- Wal Thornhill's series of predictions prior to NASA'a celebrated Deep Impact mission of 2005 -- received stunning confirmation, but no notice whatsoever from the mainstream scientific media.

Site Last Updated Feb. 15, 2011: Valentine's Day X Class Flare exploded from the Sun @ 1:00:08 UT or Feb. 14th 8:00:08 PM PST
@ 1:00:08 UT, Scorpio was rising with ruler Mars in a conjunction with the Sun-Neptune in the angular 4th house and square the Ascendant and Descendant.
After yesterday's M-Class flare, we didn't just didn't expect this sunspot cluster to finally produce the first X-Class Flare from Solar Cycle 24.
this Aquarian Stellium marks a time of "firsts" and the unexpected
as we are heading toward exact conjuncts right after the Full Moon on 2-18-2011 @ 29 degrees Leo (where the Sun is exalted)!

Sunspot group 1158 produces the first X class solar flare of Solar Cycle 24
Sunspot 1158 has unleashed the strongest solar flare in more than four years. The eruption, which peaked at 0156 UT on Feb. 15th, registered X2 on the Richter scale of solar flares. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded an intense flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation, circled below:
This is considered strong and we might expect some blackouts and disruptions of GPS

X-flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this is the first such eruption of new Solar Cycle 24. In addition to flashing Earth with UV radiation, the explosion also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) in our direction. The expanding cloud may be seen in this movie from NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft. Geomagnetic storms are likely when the CME arrives ~48 hours hence

Site Last Updated February 13, 2011: M-class solar flares headed for earth
The Aquarian Stellium (led by Mars-Sun) combined with Jupiter in Aries TSQ Saturn-Pluto are some of the astrological factors
for the acceleration and buildup with Solar Cycle 24.

Earth-Directed Solar Flare from Behemoth Sunspot 1158
Sunspot 1158 has just unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year, an M6.6-category blast @ 1738 UT on Feb. 13th.
The eruption appears to have launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. It also produced a loud blast of radio emissions heard in shortwave receivers around the dayside of our planet.
Sunspot 1158 has been growing rapidly (48 hour movie) and crackling with M-class solar flares.
The active region is now more than 100,000 km wide with at least a dozen Earth-sized dark cores scattered beneath its unstable magnetic canopy. More earth-directed eruptions are likely in the hours ahead.

Site Last Updated February 11, 2011: Near Earth Objects impact as we start the Universal Underworld and the Aquarian Stellium continues.

TWO ASTEROIDS HIT THE U.S. ON THE 10TH OF FEBRUARY 2011 (1/3)
Dr Bill Deagle and Lucus discuss along with John Moore the impacts on the U.S. by asteroids which are being covered up by the mainstream media as you'd expect. This broadcast occurred on the 11th of February 2011.
2/9/2011 - Mysterious Explosion in Allentown, Pennsylvania Destroys Eight Homes

Site Last Updated February 11, 2011: Currently we have an hot expansive Jupiter in Aries TSQ Saturn-Libra and Pluto-Capricorn
plus the wild card and explosive Aquarian Stellium Led by Mars-Sun
Back on Aug. 1, 2010 with Mars-Saturn in early LIbra opposing Jupiter-Uranus in early Aries TSQ Pluto
You guessed it, we ain't seen nothing yet till after March 11th...

SOLAR TSUNAMI ERUPTS
The source of the wave was active sunspot 1153
Imagine a wave of hot plasma towering higher than Earth itself, rippling out from a central point in a circular pattern millions of kilometers in circumference. Researchers recently realized that such monster waves are real, and they happen routinely on the sun. Just yesterday, one of them surged over the western limb. Click on the image to view the shadowy yet staggering solar tsunami of Feb. 10th:

The source of the wave was active sunspot 1153, currently located on the far side of the sun. An eruption in the sunspot's magnetic canopy propelled a shock wave across the stellar surface--all the way over the horizon where it could be seen from Earth. Sequences like this show how farside sunspots can actually "reach around" to affect the Earth-side of the sun. Suppose that wave ran into a magnetic filament , destabilized it, and triggered an explosion aimed at our planet. It's happened before back on Aug. 1, 2010

Site Last Updated February 9, 2011: Yesterday's Aries Moon was TSQ Pluto and Saturn creating sparks here on earth
while we head into a new period of Solar Maximum that can't be denied...

Solar Activity Heats Up with Sunspot 1153
Formerly quiet sunspot 1153 is suddenly crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this eruption during the waning hours of Feb. 8th:

Because sunspot 1153 is rounding the sun's western horizon, these eruptions are not Earth-directed. They are, however, Venus-directed. The second planet from the sun could receive glancing blows from solar plasma clouds in the days ahead.

Site Last Updated February 9, 2011: Chiron, the maverick asteroid known as the rainbow bridge between Saturn and Uranus just entered far-out Pisces
Neptune will also enter Pisces on April 4th and ET disclosure is happening now.

An Anomalous SETI Signal - NASA Declares Possible ET Signal
Explanation: No one knows for sure what caused this signal. There is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here on Earth by a radio telescope involved in a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). A search for these signals is ongoing by several groups including volunteer members of the SETI League. Time labels the vertical axis of the above plot, and frequency marks the horizontal axis. Although this strong signal was never positively identified, astronomers have identified in it many attributes characteristic of a more mundane and ultimately terrestrial origin. In this case, a leading possibility is that the signal originates from an unusual modulation between a GPS satellite and an unidentified Earth-based source. Many unusual signals from space remain unidentified. No signal has yet been strong enough or run long enough to be unambiguously identified as originating from an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Site Last Updated February 9, 2011: Right in line with the Aquarian aligment, Uranus entering pioneering Aries
and the mysterious Elenin cross into our part of the solar system.

Close Approach 2011 CA7 @ 0.3 LD 9 Feb and others

Site Last Updated February 7, 2011: The Aquarian transits (especially Sun-Mars) have been a motivator for more discoveries in Space.
Interestingly enough Aquarius relates to clouds and with Jupiter in Aries all activities of the Sun will be studies and expanded.

New images show cloud exploding from Sun ripples like clouds on Earth
Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are similar to those seen in clouds in Earth’s atmosphere.
These results could greatly assist physicists trying to understand and predict our Solar System’s “weather”.
The researchers, led by of the Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics, at the University of Warwick’s Department of Physics, made their discovery when examining new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These images were provided by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) experiment on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). SDO was been launched last year and provides unprecedented views of the Sun in multiple temperatures.
The new SDO/AIA observations provided images of coronal mass ejections in the extreme ultra violet at a temperature that was not possible to observe in previous instruments – 11 million Kelvin. On examining these images the Warwick researchers spotted a familiar pattern of instability on one flank of an exploding cloud of solar material that closely paralleled instabilities seen in Earth’s clouds and waves on the surfaces of seas.

Site Last Updated February 6, 2011: Aries is a sign of great promise and a new wave of energies coming to earth.
Tonight's conjunction of Jupiter/Moon expanding the powers of Aries occurs exactly @ 8:50 PM PST

SUNSET SKY SHOW - Hail the Crescent Moon in Aries Meeting Jupiter!
When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. Jupiter is in conjunction with the crescent Moon.
Try to catch them before the sky fades to black. A bright conjunction framed by twilight-blue is a super sight! [sky map]

Site Last Updated February 4, 2011: These storms are both a mystical sign reflecting today's Moon/jPisces in sextile to Venus and Pluto
Visually a rich mix aided by our perceptions as Mercury/Aquarius is Sextile Jupiter/Aries - a time for the new

Geomagnetic Storm and Aurora Alert
A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of Feb. 4th, sparking a G2-class (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm, in progress. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras, especially during the hours around local midnight.

In Gimsøy, Norway, the whole world seemed to turn green when the solar wind hit:

"The Northern Lights danced for us tonight showing all its magic and strength," says photographer Cristina Albuerne. "I'm living in a very special place.

Current aurora images: from Cristina Albuerne of Gimsøy, Lofoten, Norway;
And from Beate Kiil Karlsen of Norway;

Site Last Updated February 2, 2011: Cosmic Discoveries coming in hot and heavy with Uranian aspects and sign
Mercury was sextile Uranus (sudden discoveries)
Aquarian Stellium ruled by Uranus
Venus in Sag. Square Uranus bringing firsts of many kinds mostly with women's issues but that is another story.

NASA Finds 20 New Comets, 33,000-Plus Asteroids
NEOs are asteroids and comets with orbits that come within 28 million miles of Earth's path around the sun. A comet is an icy small Solar System body that when close enough to the Sun displays a visible coma - a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere - and sometimes also a tail. Asteroids are actually small solar system bodies orbiting around the sun.
NASA's NEOWISE is an enhancement of the $320 million Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission that was launched in Dec. 2009. WISE scanned the entire celestial sky in infrared light about 1.5 times and captured more than 2.7 million images of objects in space, ranging from faraway galaxies to asteroids and comets close to Earth.
NEOWISE data will help in the discovery of the closest dim stars, called brown dwarfs. These observations have the potential to reveal a brown dwarf even closer to us than our closest known star, Proxima Centauri, if such an object does exist.

Site Last Updated February 2 , 2011: Right on time for the Aquarian New Moon and a Sun-Moon-Mars conjunction
the Earth is being hit with more solar wind and CME's

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH:
NOAA forecasters estimate a 60% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on Feb. 3rd. They say a high-speed solar wind stream and a CME could hit Earth's magnetic field on Wednesday--a double whammy almost certain to spark some degree of geomagnetic activity.

Site Last Updated February 2 , 2011: Today's massive new moon in Aquarius is spawing fantasy and developing solar storms...
the photon belt means an awakening for all and a rebirth.

NASA Issues 2012 Warning as we enter the Photon Belt?
MORE EVIDENCE OF PHOTON BELT: Astrophysicist Alexia Demetria says our solar system is entering an interstellar energy cloud
In light of recent news, the following information is paramount. On July 14, 2010 we learned that our sun is passing through an interstellar energy cloud which excites/energizes the sun. NASA, along with The National Academy of Science and other world renowned scientist are so concerned about this up and coming solar maximum in late 2012, that way back in March 10, 2006 NASA issued a solar storm warning (in writing) for 2012. What NASA omitted in their 2006 solar storm warning is what prompted NASA in the first place to issue a 2012 solar storm warning four years in advance? Then in 2010, NASA again warns the general population of a pending solar storm, telling the population to get ready for a once in a lifetime solar storm. Despite that news agencies and websites like this one are beginning to cover this developing story, no high government official has yet to stick his or her neck out to make an official announcement about the catastrophic implications as to allow the global population to begin preparing.

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January 2011 - A Month of Continued Intense Solar Activity, a New Comet, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with January 2011 Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
January is fired up and highlighted by an earthy new moon in Capricorn on January 4th @ 1:03 AM PST
right before a Partial Solar Eclipse @ 1:51 AM PST (maximum eclipse)
Then on January 19th. a Major Full Moon in Cancer @ 29 degrees taking place @1:21 PM PST
January also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

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Stay Tuned with all Updates on Sunspots , Solar Flares Prominences and Filaments at Solarcycle24.com

Site Last Updated January 31, 2011: Don't be distracted by mainstream news reporting about Egypt or Charlie Sheen's escapades
we are in a huge galactic shift that is reflected by Wednesday's New Moon in Aquarius
Check out the Magnetsophere and see how we are being bombarded from not just solar wind but gamma rays

What’s distorting and twisting the planet’s magnetic field?
January 31, 2011 – The frenzied and disorganized spectral patterns we’ve seen in the planet’s magnetosphere continues today with this current snapshot of a cork-screw effect.

Site last updated: January 31, 2011: We are heading into shocking territory with the next new Moon on Feb. 2nd.
with the Sun-Mars conjunct - will the solar wind hit us on Earth?

A Coronal Hole Opens To Blast Earth?
A dark croissant-shaped hole has opened up in the sun's atmosphere, and it is spewing a stream of solar wind into space. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the vast opening during the early hours of Jan. 31st:

Researchers call this a "coronal hole." Solar rotation is turning the coronal hole toward Earth. The stream of solar wind pouring from it will swing around and hit our planet in early February, possibly sparking polar magnetic storms. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras between Feb. 2nd and 4th.

Site last updated: January 29, 2011: Interesting that both solar activity and the current Jupiter-Aries (increase aggressive traits) along with the ruler Mars near the Sun in the most revolutionary sign: Aquarius
Tchijevsky discovered that the solar minimum is the lag period when repression is tolerated by the masses, as if they lacked the vital energy to make the needed changes. He found that during the sunspot maximum, the movement of humans is also at its peak. Review: "Sunspots and Human Behavior"
The recent Solar Maximum gives us a wonderful opportunity to observe the Sun in action. Borderland Sciences has been investigating the relationship of the Sun and human behaviour for many years, and we are quite confident that we can predict behaviours based on sunspot fluctuations over very short and long durations within the Solar Cycle of 11 years. Historically, research has been conducted to link the 11 year cycle of the sun to changes in human behavior and society. The most famous research had been done by professor A.L. Tchijevsky, a Russian scientist, who presented a paper to the American Meteorological Society at Philadelphia in the late 19th century. He prepared a study of the history of mass human movement compared to the solar cycle, beginning with the division of the Solar cycle into four parts: 1) Minimum sunspot activity; 2) increasing sunspot activity; 3) maximum sunspot activity; 4) Decreasing sunspot activity. He then divided up the agitation of mass human movements into five phases:
1. provoking influence of leaders upon masses
2. the “exciting” effect of emphasized ideas upon the masses
3. the velocity of incitability due to the presence of a single psychic center
4. the extensive areas covered by mass movements
5. Integration and individualization of the masses
Tchijevsky discovered that the solar minimum is the lag period when repression is tolerated by the masses, as if they lacked the vital energy to make the needed changes. He found that during the sunspot maximum, the movement of humans is also at its peak. Tchijevsky’s study is the foundation of sunspot theory on human behavior, and as Harlan True Stetson, in his book Sunspots and Their Effects (available from BSRF), stated, “Until, however, someone can arrive at a more convincing excitability quotient for mass movements than professor Tchijevsky appears yet to have done, scientists will be reluctant to subscribe to all the conclusions which he sets forth.” Stetson did acknowledge that the mechanism by which ultraviolet radiation is absorbed was still a puzzle biologists had to solve.

Site Last Updated January 28, 2011: It is no accident that since Jan. 15th and the Jupiter ingress into Aries where the Sun is exalted,
the sun's activity has increased...

Double Solar Eruptions Rock!
Jan. 28th began with not one but two major eruptions on the sun. Separated by more than a million kilometers, the two blasts occurred almost simultaneously on opposite corners of the solar disk. Click on the image to view a movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

On the lower left, a magnetic filament became unstable and erupted, hurling a portion of itself into space. On the upper right, departing sunspot 1149 produced an M1-class solar flare and a bright coronal mass ejection (stay tuned for a SOHO movie of the CME). Is this all a big coincidence? Maybe not. New research shows that eruptions on the sun can "go global" with widely separated blasts unfolding in concert.
Per Spaceweather.com These blasts are going to miss in concert, too. Plasma clouds ejected by the two eruptions will sail wide of our planet, one on the left and one on the right. No Earth-effects are expected but with Sun-Mars in Aquarius the unexpected could occur.

Site Last Updated January 26, 2011: It is only fitting that: this discovery of the Oldest Galaxy Yet Seen ?
Saturn or Cronos represent sage and ancient records and stationed retrograde last night @ 10:11 PM
As we align with the Galactic Center and complete the ages of the Galactic Underworld
everything is both more synchronized and intensified.

Astronomers Discover Oldest Galaxy Yet Seen
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Shown here is the Hubble Space Telescope's photo of a candidate galaxy that existed 480 million years after the Big Bang (the z~10 galaxy) and the position in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) where it was found. The galaxy is touted as the oldest, most distant one yet seen by Hubble. This field -- called HUDF09 – is the deepest infrared image ever taken of the universe. NASA, ESA, Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Rychard Bouwens (University of California, Santa Cruz and Leiden University) and the HUDF09 Team.
by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer
Date: 26 January 2011 Time: 01:01 PM ET
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have peered further back in time than ever before, spotting a galaxy that formed less than 500 million years after the birth of our universe, making it the oldest and most distant ever seen.
The find, reported today (Jan. 26) in the journal Nature, should help astronomers better understand the early days of the universe, researchers said. In particular, the discovery should shed light on the evolution of early galaxies, which first formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
"In essence, the most important aspect of this is, it provides us with some sense of how fast galaxies are building up," lead author Rychard Bouwens, of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Leiden University in The Netherlands, told SPACE.com. "It provides a sort of measuring stick."
Peering backward through time
Bouwens and his colleagues analyzed observations made by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
They looked at infrared data gathered by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which was installed on the telescope in 2009. [Most Amazing Hubble Discoveries]

Site Last Updated January 26, 2011: We are in a time of amazing discoveries and synchronicity as Sun-Mars are together in Aquarius
and Jupiter transits in Aries (new findings)
In this case Zeta Ophiuchi is located in the constellation Ophiuchus, or Serpentarius,
the Serpent-holder, the Serpent Bearer, the Serpent Wrestler, or the Snake Charmer, is depicted holding a snake, the snake is represented by the constellation Serpens.
Today Chicchan- the Serpent is the Mayan Day sign
Zeta Ophiuchi appears as a blue star could relate to the Hopi Blue Kachina Prophecy
"When the Blue Star Kachina makes its appearance in the heavens, the Fifth World will emerge". This will be the Day of Purification.

Zeta Ophiuchi -- Runaway Star Plowing Through Space Dust

A massive star flung away from its former companion is plowing through space dust. The result is a brilliant bow shock, seen here as a yellow arc in a new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
The star, named Zeta Ophiuchi, is huge, with a mass of about 20 times that of our sun. In this image, in which infrared light has been translated into visible colors we see with our eyes, the star appears as the blue dot inside the bow shock.
Zeta Ophiuchi once orbited around an even heftier star. But when that star exploded in a supernova, Zeta Ophiuchi shot away like a bullet. It's traveling at a whopping 54,000 miles per hour (or 24 kilometers per second), and heading toward the upper left area of the picture.

Site Last Updated Jan. 23, 2011: As predicted the ingress of Jupiter into Aries (Jan. 22nd) has meant a major increase of sunspot acitivity
The article below states: "a 10% chance of M-class eruptions during the next 24 hours." generated from Sunspot 1149...
My guess is that with today's ingress of Libra Moon both opposing Jupiter (Aries) and TSQ Pluto(Capricorn), that figure can be raised to 70%.
For review: "M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare."

Sunspot Activity Accelerates with Sunspot 1149
The biggest sunspots of the year are putting on a show for amateur astronomers. From his backyard observatory in Brazil, Rogerio Marcon photographed a maelstrom of hot gas swirling around the dark cores of AR1147-1149 on Jan. 22nd:

Sunspot 1149 (the southern half of the complex) has a tangled magnetic field that harbors energy for strong flares. NOAA forecasters estimate a 10% chance of M-class eruptions during the next 24 hours. Readers with solar telescopes should continue to monitor the region for explosive developments.

Site Last Updated Jan. 20, 2011: Fiery aftermath from the Full Moon now in Leo and with Sun-Mars conjunct to heat things up.

The Solar Storm passes with a chance of another eruption.
The solar rainstorm is over. A prominence that was raining plasma onto the sun's southwestern limb yesterday erupted during the early hours of Jan. 20th. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:

The prominence hurled part of itself into space, but the resulted plasma cloud was not directed toward Earth. This eruption was merely photogenic, not geoeffective. Now attention turns to the sun's northwestern limb where another eruption is in progress.

Site Last Updated Jan. 19, 2011: Less than an hour after the Full Wolf Moon in Cancer, the Moon entered fiery Leo
to oppose Mars in Aquarius

Incredible Plasma Rain
A sheet of plasma more than 350,000 km wide is rising and falling along the sun's southwestern limb today. It's so big, it makes an easy target for backyard observatories. Amateur astronomer Michael Buxton sends this time lapse movie from Ocean Beach, California:

"I made the movie at 1 minute intervals from 1753-1934 UT on Jan. 18th," he explains. "It was a real jaw dropper. Even in my small telescope (a 4-inch Takahashi refractor with a H-alpha solar filter) you could clearly see blobs of plasma falling to the stellar surface."

Site Last Updated Jan. 15, 2011: Today's ingress of Mars into Aquarius @ 2:41 PM PST could refect the shockwaves generated by the increasing power of the far side of the Sun.
A solar wind stream is currently buffeting Earth's magnetic field and sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle.
Could this region develop into a killer flare like the one that occured in 1859?

More on the: SUPER-ACTIVE SOLAR REGION:
A farside sunspot which has produced a number of strong flares and CMEs in recent days is emerging over the sun's eastern limb. We can now see it from Earth.
Click here for a first-look from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Site Last Updated Jan 13, 2011: Sun in an applying sextile to Jupiter and Uranus reflects the excitement of these solar eruptions.

FARSIDE ERUPTION: An active region on the far side of the sun erupted this morning, hurling a bright CME into space. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) saw the cloud emerging over the sun's eastern limb:

NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft happens to be stationed almost directly over the blast site. The spacecraft's extreme UV telescope caught the explosion from the beginning; this movie shows the eruption and the shadowy shock wave it propelled through the sun's atmosphere.
The source of this activity, probably a big sunspot, is on the farside of the sun now, but won't remain there. The sun's rotation is turning it toward Earth. Geoeffective solar activity could commence within days. Stay tuned.

Site Last Updated Jan 9, 2011: Could these punch hole clouds relate to the Sagittarian (aviation oriented) transits of Venus-Vesta-Mercury all in the sign of the archer?
Why becuase squares to Jupiter-Uranus in Pisces are perfecting...
A “Hole Punch” cloud is a non-technical name given to a cloud formed from an aircraft dissipation hole or trail. They are also called "Punch Hole" clouds.

Triple Punch Hole Clouds: "I've lived by the sea for many years, but never seen anything like this," reports Wesley Tyler of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. "On Friday, Jan. 7th, there were three punch hole clouds in the same place." He grabbed his camera and recorded the phenomenon:

Site Last Updated Jan 4, 2011: A day of strange, unusual and colorful images in conjunction with this Partial Solar Eclipse
relating excessively to Jupiter-Uranus together in Pisces trine Venus (goddess of beauty in Scorpio)

CRESCENT SUNRISE ROCKS THE ECLIPSE:
Earlier today, the new Moon passed in front of the sun, slightly off-center, producing a partial solar eclipse and a fantastic crescent sunrise over Europe. Dennis Put sends this picture from Maasvlakte, The Netherlands:

"The eclipse was absolutely stunning!" says Put. "At first some major cloud fronts threatened to hide the event. I was very pleased to meet the two peaks of the crescent Sun rising above the clouds around 9 o'clock."

More colorful and unusual images from the Netherlands
Here in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Here in Ras Lanuf, Libya
Here in Stockholm, Sweden

Site Last Updated Jan 3, 2011: There is a convergence of astronomical events tomorrow Jan.4th .
Plus a convergence of astrological aspects from the Capricorn New Moon @ 1:03 AM
to the dissolving Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Pisces and square the Galactic Center @ 4:52 AM PST

Coming together a Quadrantid Meteor Shower and a Partial Solar Eclipse

First: the Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Earth is about to pass through a narrow stream of debris from shattered comet 2003 EH1, source of the annual Quadrantid meteor shower.
"Peaking in the wee morning hours of Tuesday, Jan. 4, the Quads have a maximum rate of about 100 per hour (varies between 60 and 200)," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "What makes this year so special is that the Moon is New on the night of the peak, so there will be no interference from moonlight."

Second: a Partial Solar Eclipse
After the meteor shower, observers in Europe, northern Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia can witness a partial eclipse of the sun. In western Europe, as much as 86% of the solar disk will be covered by the Moon at dawn, producing a fantastic crescent sunrise on Jan. 4th. Follow the links for a live webcast , an animated map, and details from NASA.

Site Last Updated Jan 1, 2011: As solar maximum kicks into high gear right after the Partial Solar Eclipse on Jan. 4th.
and Jupiter making an ingress into Aries on Jan. 22, 2011

A New Year - More Sunspots
2011 is beginning with a flurry of sunspots. Five dark cores have emerged on the Earth-side of the sun, including sunspots 1138 and 1140.
Viewers of solar telescopes find a quintet of targets for New Years Day.
So far, none of the new regions is producing strong solar flares.

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December 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, a New Comet, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with November's Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
December is fired up and highlighted by an adventurous new moon in Sagittarius on December 5th @ 9:37 AM PST
Then on December 21st . a Major Full Moon in Gemini @ 29 degrees taking place @12:13 AM PST
December also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

Site Last Updated Dec. 30, 2010: As we head into 2011, the importance of the Sun's behaviour takes on greater significance
Jupiter the planet of excess enters Aries on Jan. 22, 2011 then on March 11th the shocker Uranus makes an ingress into Aries
Solar Maxiumum is here and the mainstream media will continue to blast stories of major solar eruptions and CME's.

Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max'

A NASA image of an eruption on the Sun. The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.
The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.
Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and tempest. Site Last Updated Dec. 28, 2010: This Solar Wind was a major disturbance to the Earth's magnetosphere
and reflected the Libra Moon-Saturn square to Mars in cardinal Capricorn
The geomagnetic storm of Dec. 28th has subsided. The G1-class disturbance began when the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) tipped south,
opening a crack in Earth's magnetosphere.
Solar wind poured in and sparked bright Northern Lights around the Arctic Circle. US Defense meteorological satellites captured this image of bright auroral bands circling north of Scandinavia:

Paul McCrone processed the data at the US Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey, CA. "These images use both nighttime visual and infrared data from the DMSP satellites F17 and F18," he says. DMSP satellites are outfitted with low-light cameras capable of recording clouds, lightning, city lights and auroras after nightfall. Note in the image, above, how the brightest bands of aurora borealis rival the urban lights of some northern European cities. "It was a dramatic display," observes McCrone.

Site Last Updated Dec. 16, 2010: The next Full Moon is a Total Lunar Eclipse (Dec. 21st @ 8:17 AM UT) with Moon/Sun at critical 29 degrees Gemini/Sagittarius
The Geminid Meteor put on a spectacular show to get us ready..

UPDATED: 2010 Geminid Meteor Photo Gallery
On Dec. 13th and 14th, Earth passed through a stream of debris sputtering from mystery-rock 3200 Phaethon. The result was the annual Geminid meteor shower. At maximum, international observers counted more than 100 meteors per hour.

Site Last Updated Dec. 14, 2010: With Today's Aries Moon it is appropriate to look back on
the August 1, 2010 global eruption on our Sun which presages more solar conflagrations:
at that time Mars-Saturn were conjunct in Libra in a close TSQ with Jupiter-Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn
heading into 2011, Jupiter and Uranus head back in Aries for more of the same!

Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
Dec. 13, 2010: On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into space. Astronomers knew they had witnessed something big.
It was so big, it may have shattered old ideas about solar activity.
"The August 1st event really opened our eyes," says Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab in Palo Alto, CA. "We see that solar storms can be global events, playing out on scales we scarcely imagined before."

Click to play an extreme ultraviolet movie of the August 1st global eruption. Different colors represent different plasma temperatures in the range 1.0 to 2.2 million K. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Dec. 13, 2010: As the Sun in Sagittarius translates the powerful energies of Mars in SAG square Uranus in Pisces on Dec. 3rd.
By perfecting to a Sun-Uranus square on Dec. 18th
we look toward the opposite sign: Gemini as the meteor showers are intense this year

GEMINID METEOR SHOWER ROCKS!
The Geminid meteor shower is underway. According to the International Meteor Organization, dark-sky observers are now counting as many as 40 Geminids per hour. Forecasters expect this rate to double or more when the shower peaks during the early hours of Dec. 14th. The best time to look is during the dark hours before sunrise on Tuesday:
Check out the sky map

The Geminid meteor image (s) below were taken on Dec. 13, 2010 by Brian Emfinger in Ozark, AR.

Dec. 12, 2010: The Sun now in fiery Sagittarius is heading toward exact squares with Jupiter (Dec. 16th. ) and Uranus (Dec. 18th.)
Sun-Jupiter not only reflects debate and struggle here on earth but via mighty Helios while Sun-Uranus means shockwaves on terra firma and current CME's hurling toward the earth.

Huge CME BURSTS 12-12-2010

Dec. 11, 2010: In spectacular synergy, the Geminid meteor shower peaks on Dec. 13th. and 14th. when the mighty Capricorn Conjunction with Mercury-Mars-Pluto aligning @ 4 degrees 41 Capricorn - Sabian: Indians rowing a canoe and dancing a war dance.
A war dance in the sky or as Phaethon myth says
Phaeton wanted to drive his chariot (the sun) for a day. Helios tried to talk him out of it by telling him that not even Zeus (the king of gods) would dare to drive it,

GEMINID METEOR UPDATE
Go outside at midnight and stare at the sky for six minutes. Right now, that's about how long it takes to see a Geminid meteor, according to counts posted by the International Meteor Organization. The pace will pick up in the nights ahead as Earth plunges deeper into the Geminid debris stream. On peak night, Dec. 13th-14th, meteor rates could jump as high as 120 per hour, reducing the wait from six minutes to a mere 30 seconds.

This week, Earth is entering a stream of debris from asteroid 3200 Phaethon, source of the mysterious Geminid meteor shower. Although the shower's peak won't come until Dec. 13th and 14th, people are already seeing a smattering of bright shooting stars. Fredrik Broms photographed this Geminid streaking over the snowy hills of Kvaløya, Norway, on Dec. 7th:

Dec. 7, 2010: Sunday's New Moon in explosive Sagittarius reflectd the "epic blast" which occured on the Sun yesterday. >br>The new moon featured a fiery line up of Vesta-Sun-Moon-Pallas and Mars all in the sign of the archer in orb to a square with Jupiter-Uranus

Mega-filament Erupts in Epic Blast
As predicted, the a "mega-filament" of solar magnetism erupted on Dec. 6th, producing a blast of epic proportions. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action as the 700,000-km long structure lifted off the stellar surface and--snap!!--hurled itself into space

The eruption produced a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) observed by the STEREO-A spacecraft: video. Earth was not in the line of fire; the cloud should sail wide of our planet. Earth-effects might be limited to pretty pictures.

Dec. 7, 2010: The Moon representing our unconcious occulted Mars the planet of action and war at 1:46 PM PST

Last night (Dec. 6th), deep in western twilight, the crescent Moon eclipsed (occulted) Mars over North America. "I was perfectly placed to observe the event," says Doug Zubenel of De Soto, Kansas, who caught Mars popping out from behind the crescent.
"It happened right behind the water tower of De Soto!"

Dec. 5, 2010: A Sagittarean New Moon joined by Vesta-Pallas and Mars wouldn't be complete wiht a story form the reaches of deep space.
In this case a a huge planet (Nibiru style) four times the mass of Jupiter

Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System's Edge
Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system — a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest.
A NASA space telescope launched last year may soon detect such a stealth companion to our sun, if it actually exists, in the distant icy realm of the comet-birthing Oort cloud, which surrounds our solar system with billions of icy objects.
The potential jumbo Jupiter would likely be a world so frigid it is difficult to spot, researchers said. It could be found up to 30,000 astronomical units from the sun. One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles (150 million km).

Dec. 5, 2010: A Sagittarean New Moon joined by Vesta-Pallas and Mars wouldn't be complete wiht a story form the reaches of deep space.
In this case a a huge planet (Nibiru style) four times the mass of Jupiter

Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System's Edge
Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system — a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest.
A NASA space telescope launched last year may soon detect such a stealth companion to our sun, if it actually exists, in the distant icy realm of the comet-birthing Oort cloud, which surrounds our solar system with billions of icy objects.
The potential jumbo Jupiter would likely be a world so frigid it is difficult to spot, researchers said. It could be found up to 30,000 astronomical units from the sun. One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles (150 million km).

Dec. 1, 2010: Wow! Another massive eruption from our sun reflecting astrological challenges from Mars square Uranus in mutable signs to
Mercury meeting Pluto in cardinal Capricorn to square the Moon and Saturn in Libra

Potential Earth-Directed Eruption from Magnetic Filament
A magnetic filament in the sun's northeastern quadrant erupted during the late hours of Nov. 30th. Click on the image to play a movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory--and pay attention to the bright splash below the movie arrow:

The blast produced a B-class solar flare and hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. Preliminary coronagraph images from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft suggest that the cloud might be heading toward Earth. Further analysis is required, however, to confirm that the CME is coming our way. Stay tuned for updates.

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November 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, a New Comet, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with November's Aurora and Northern LIghts Gallery
November is highlighted by an incredible new moon in Scorpio on October 5th @ 9:52 PM PDT
Then on November 21st . a Major Full Moon in Taurus @ 29 degrees taking place @ 9:27 AM PST
November also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms and Volcanic Sunsets

Stay Tuned with all Updates on Sunspots , Solar Flares Prominences and Filaments at Solarcycle24.com

Nov. 30, 2010: As we continue in this risky critical 3rd. Qtr. Moon Phase with Moon now in active cardinal Libra,
we head toward a Sagittarius New Moon on Dec. 5th
a lunation of fiery conflagration Sagittarius
Uranus will station direct on Dec. 5th and in the meantime both Mercury and Mars in Sag. are square Uranus.

Sunspot 1130 grows into a huge canopy.
Two days ago, sunspot 1130 didn't exist. Now the fast-growing sunspot group is the largest visible feature on the sun's disk with twin cores both larger than Earth. The amazing thing, however, is the invisible part. Using extreme ultraviolet filters outside the range of human vision, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this picture of the sunspot's magnetic canopy on Nov. 30th:

Nov. 29, 2010: We are now in a critical 3rd. Qtr. Moon Phase heading toward a Sagittarius New Moon on Dec. 5th in the sign of conflagration Sagittarius
Uranus will station direct on Dec. 5th and in the meantime both Mercury and Mars in Sag. are square Uranus.

Earth-facing Sunspot 1130 is Developing Rapidly
New sunspot 1130 is rapidly developing near the center of the sun's disk and "it is crackling with activity," reports Michael Borman of Evansville, Indiana.
Using a backyard solar telescope, he took the picture below of a B-class explosion from the active region on Nov. 28th. So far, the flares have been relatively minor, but if the sunspot's growth continues apace, geo-effective blasts could be in the offing.

Nov. 24, 2010: As Uranus the maverick planet moves direct and continues to travel with Jupiter we are finding
more mysterious and alien comets brought in by the Sun
Keep in mind that the oort cloud is an immense cloud of comets orbiting the Sun far beyond Pluto

ALIEN COMETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Some of the comets in our Solar System probably came from other stars, according to new research by NASA-supported scientists. Studying these 'alien' comets, they say, could reveal new information about stellar systems far, far away.
Get the full story from Science@NASA.

Nov. 24, 2010: With Sun-Mars-Mercury-Pallas is deep space boundary breaking Sagittarius all in square with Jupiter in Pisces
Jupiter is of couse the planet of more, more and more and expanison.

500th Alien Planet Discovered, With Hundreds More to Come
The 500th alien world appears to have been discovered, according to extrasolar planet trackers.
Less than 20 years after confirming the first planet beyond our own solar system, astronomers have bagged exoplanet No. 500. The milestone was reached Friday (Nov. 19), according to the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, a database compiled by astrobiologist Jean Schneider of the Paris-Meudon Observatory.
As of today (Nov. 22), the count stands at 502 alien worlds, the database reports.
The 500th extrasolar planet was reported in the midst of the discovery of several others. And there's always the risk a previous discovery turns out to be a false alarm, dropping the count.

Nov. 18, 2010: Today the Sun trines Uranus reflecing innovative, radical and surprising discoveries.
Also this "Jupiter-like planet" entered our Milky Way from another galaxy
(sounds like it is mirroring the current Sagittarius Stellium: Mercury-Mars-Pallas)
Sagittarius is the traveler who journeys from afar

Astronomers find first planet from another galaxy (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- An exoplanet orbiting a star that entered our Milky Way from another galaxy has been detected by a European team of astronomers using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. The Jupiter-like planet is particularly unusual, as it is orbiting a star nearing the end of its life and could be about to be engulfed by it, giving tantalizing clues about the fate of our own planetary system in the distant future.
Over the last 15 years, astronomers have detected nearly 500 planets orbiting stars in our cosmic neighbourhood, but none outside our Milky Way has been confirmed. Now, however, a planet with a minimum mass 1.25 times that of Jupiter has been discovered orbiting a star of extragalactic origin, even though the star now finds itself within our own galaxy. It is part of the so-called Helmi stream — a group of stars that originally belonged to a dwarf galaxy that was devoured by our galaxy, the Milky Way, in an act of galactic cannibalism about six to nine billion years ago. The results are published today in Science Express.
"This discovery is very exciting," says Rainer Klement of the Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie (MPIA), who was responsible for the selection of the target stars for this study. "For the first time, astronomers have detected a planetary system in a stellar stream of extragalactic origin. Because of the great distances involved, there are no confirmed detections of planets in other galaxies. But this cosmic merger has brought an extragalactic planet within our reach."

Nov. 18, 2010: A busy day filled with major transits including:
with the Sun in Scorpio (death) in an exact squre to Neptune (dissolution of boundaries)

ANOTHER DOOMED COMET:
For the second time in less than a week, a comet is diving toward the sun. Polish comet hunter Michal Kusiak found it yesterday in coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

It's no coincidence that this comet is following the same path as its predecessor on Nov. 14th. They are both fragments of a single giant comet that broke apart about 2000 years ago. Astronomers call them "Kruetz sungrazers" after the 19th century German researcher, Heinrich Kreutz, who studied them in detail.
"November is one of the best months to discover Kreutz comets," notes Kusiak. "It's because the field of view of the SOHO coronagraph covers a larger-than-usual portion of the Kreutz track. December, May, and June are good, too."

Nov. 15, 2010: Deep space explosions and objects like black holes relate to both Jupiter-Sagittarius and of course Pluto
Today Mercury-Mars in Sag. square Jupiter-Uranus is promoting more first time discoveries...

Scientists witness the apparent birth of a black hole
For the first time, scientists believe they have witnessed the birth of a black hole.
The evidence began arriving 30 years ago when a star 50 million light-years away imploded, setting into motion events that created a region where gravity is so great that nothing can escape, even light.
The initial 1979 observation of the exploding star was made by an amateur astronomer from Western Maryland, but the profession's top scientists have studied it intently with increasingly sophisticated orbiting X-ray telescopes.
In announcing the discovery Monday at NASA headquarters, the researchers said that although the information they have collected is consistent with the birth of a baby black hole, they cannot rule out some other possibilities. Nonetheless, they spoke enthusiastically about what they are learning and will learn about the evolution of black holes.

Nov. 14, 2010: Cliff High and the Web Bot project claims today @ 6:50 am pacific coast time as the tipping point
which is NOT like the 9/11 attack but more like a fall
At 6:50 AM PST, Scorpio was rising with Vesta and the Sun (ancient ruler Mars-modern ruler Pluto)
This Scorpio Sun (death and transformations on many levels) is also square Neptune (dissolving boundaries)
Ruler of the chart Mars is in the first house near Mercury and Pallas in Sagittarius (sign of deep space)
Another of the elements of the Tipping Point is a

Another Sun-Diving Comet
A newly-discovered comet is diving toward the sun, and it will probably not survive the encounter. Click on the image to view a movie of the death plunge:

Japanese comet hunter Masanori Uchina first noticed the sundiver in coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on Nov. 13th.
At the time it was a dim and distant speck, but now the comet is brightening rapidly as it approaches the hot sun. UPDATE: The comet has just disappeared behind the occulting disk of SOHO's C2 coronagraph where solar heating is expected to destroy it. Click here for one last look.

Nov. 13, 2010: The fireball occured on Tuesday evening November 9th (when Pluto was conjunct N Node) Meteor Fireball Explodes Over Netherlands
A fireball meteor zipped across the Netherlands sky Tuesday evening before exploding in to the North Sea, an expert says.
The Netherlands just escaped a natural disaster from a meteor. Many Dutch people in the Netherlands witnessed a large "fireball" meteor in the sky. In the north people heard a bang and saw flashes. Also on Twitter people reported on the phenomenon.
The Groningen astronomical Theo Jurriens confirmed that this was a very bright meteor and at one point burst into three pieces.
About one hundred reports have been received from people who have seen the fireball. From the north of the Netherlands there are reports of people who heard rumblings when the meteor passed by and buildings were shaking.

Nov. 12, 2010: The energies are building with Mars-Mercury in Sagittarius square the Juptier-Uranus duo
along with the Sun square Neptune/Chiron
This glancing blow from the CME will be felt around the 14th. when we are in the critical last qtr. moon phase.

Earth-Directed Eruption from Sunspot 1123
Active sunspot 1123 erupted during the early hours of Nov. 12th, producing a C4-class solar flare and apparently hurling a filament of material in the general direction of Earth.
Click on the image to play a three and a half hour (0000 - 0330 UT) time lapse movie of the event:

Coronagraph images from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft show a coronal mass ejection (CME) emerging from the blast site and heading off in a direction just south of the sun-Earth line. The cloud could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field sometime on Nov. 14th or 15th, sparking auroras. Stay tuned for refined predictions later today when SOHO images of the CME become available.

Nov. 10, 2010: Volcanoes and Volcanic Regions relate to Pluto which is now near the N Node in cardinal earth sign Capricorn
Volcanoes also relate to Uranus also which turns direct on Dec. 5th. and will exactly square volatile Mars (Sagittarius) on Dec. 3rd.
for even more eruptons.

VOLCANIC SUNSET ALERT:
A plume of sulfur dioxide from Indonesia's deadly Mount Merapi volcano is swirling through the upper atmosphere over western Australia. This 7-day movie from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) onboard Europe's MetOp satellite shows the plume in motion, and it could soon swirl across the entire continent.
Sky watchers in Australia should be alert for volcanic sunsets.

Nov. 10, 2010: Right on time with the Sagittarius Stellium (ruled by Jupiter) of Mercury-Mars and Pallas all in the sign of the archer
and square Jupiter/Uranus in Pisces
especially with Jupiter stationing direct (exact Nov. 18th)

JUPITER'S MISSING STRIPE, RETURNING?
Earlier this year when Jupiter's great South Equatorial Belt (SEB) vanished,
researchers urged amateur astronomers to be alert for its eventual return. The SEB had come and gone before, they noted, and the revival was something to behold. Alert: It might be happening now. After months of quiet in Jupiter's south equatorial zone, a white plume is surging through the cloudtops where the SEB should be. Christopher Go of the Philippines took this picture on Nov. 9th:

It might not look like much, but this is how a revival of the SEB begins--a small disturbance in the upper atmosphere heralds a much larger profusion of spots and swirls bursting forth around the whole circumference of the giant planet. Amid the confusion, Jupiter's vast brown stripe emerges.
Subsequent observations by astronomers in the United States, Japan, and the Philippines not only confirm the plume, but also show it brightening rapidly. Indeed, as Nov. 11th unfolds, it is the single brightest spot on Jupiter in wavebands ranging from infrared to ultraviolet.

Nov. 7, 2010: Deep Space Sagittarius (with Moon-Mars-Pallas) along with Mercury separating from a trine to Uranus
continues to aid in new space discoveries of wanderers like newly-discovered comet C/2010 V1 (Ikeya-Murakami

NEW COMET IKEYA-MURAKAMI
Newly-discovered comet C/2010 V1 (Ikeya-Murakami) is putting on a good show for anyone with a backyard telescope and an alarm clock. The clock is for getting up before dawn, and the telescope is for seeing this:

Leonid Elenin took the picture on Nov. 7th using a robotic telescope in New Mexico. "The comet is rapidly changing," he reports. "The shape of its atmosphere reminds me of Comet Holmes after it had an outburst in 2007."
Indeed, Comet Ikeya-Murakami might be experiencing a similar event. The icy visitor from the outer solar system made its closest approach to the sun (1.7 AU) in late October, so it has recently received a strong dose of solar heating. Ice pockets could be evaporating, comet-caverns collapsing, who knows?

Nov. 6, 2010: When this aggressive sunspot unleased this massive x-ray flare, Aries was rising @ 15:36 UT for Greenwhich
and ruler Mars in a big explosive square to Jupiter-Uranus
powerful cardinal signs at the angles with a Grand Cardinal Cross involving the Nodes (Cap. and Cancer)
along with the continued Saturn-Astraea opposition in Libra-Aries

Major M5 Solar Flare Blasts Off
Active sunspot 1121 has just unleashed one of the brightest x-ray solar flares in years, an M5.4-class eruption at 15:36 UT on Nov. 6th.
Click on the image to view a movie of the blast from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

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 our direction, so the event is unlikely to produce auroras in the nights ahead. This is the third M-flare in as many days, and the strongest, from this increasingly active sunspot. So far none of the eruptions has been squarely Earth-directed, but this could change in the days ahead as the sun's rotation turns the active region toward our planet.

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October 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, a New Comet, Mega Solar Filaments, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with September's Northern LIghts Gallery
October is highlighted by an incredible new moon in LIbra on October 7th @ 11:44 AM PDT
Then on October 22nd . the Second Full Moon in Aries in the Last 30 days and the S Node will be opposing Pluto-N Node in cardinal signs
October also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms

Stay Tuned with all Updates on Sunspots , Solar Flares Prominences and Filaments at Solarcycle24.com

Oct. 28, 2010: Mars entered Sagittarius @ 2:48 AM EDT or 6:48 UTC
the power generated by Mars TSQ Juno-Jupiter-Uranus
and Pluto-N Node TSQ S Node-Moon in Cancer and Saturn in Libra will be felt by all.

Giant Solar Twister
Earlier today (Oct. 28th) a twisted filament of magnetism on the sun suddenly untwisted. The result was a spectacular eruption recorded in full-disk detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

At its peak, the twister--or rather, untwister--towered more than 350,000 km above the stellar surface. It appears to have hurled a fragment of itself into space, but not toward Earth; the blast was not geoeffective.
Now that the filament has relaxed, it is unlikely to erupt again. The next blast is more likely to come from big sunspot 1117, which NOAA forecasters say could produce an M-class solar flare. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.

Oct. 27, 2010: The Heliacal Setting Star for the last Aries Full Moon was Alpheratz which is associated with both Andromeda and Pegasus
Alpheratz, Alpherat, and Sirrah derive from the Arabians' Al Surrat al Faras, "the Horse's Navel"
As Mars changes signs into Sagittarius (11:48 PM PDT) the drive for freedom extends into the heavens as we connect with the entire galaxy.

POSSIBLE METEORS FROM COMET HARTLEY 2:
A pair of unusual fireballs over Canada and the southeastern USA have experts wondering if Comet Hartley 2 might produce a meteor shower in early November.
More info. here: Scientists Watch for a "Hartley-id" Meteor Shower

Oct. 26, 2010: Mars now in the last degrees of Scorpio heading into Sagittarius on Oct. 27th is a trigger
along with Pluto-N Node in a TSQ to Saturn-SNode.

Sunspot 1117 is Massive and Growing!
Sunspot group 1117 continues to grow, more than doubling in area during the past 48 hours:
check out the movie.
Each of the primary dark cores in this Oct. 26th snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory is fully as wide as Earth:

The sunspot's magnetic field is crackling with B- and C-class solar flares.. So far, these impulsive eruptions have not hurled any substantial clouds toward Earth. A big flare would be geoeffective, however, because the sunspot is almost-squarely facing Earth

Oct. 24, 2010: Since the Aries Full Moon on Friday, October 22nd, The potential for large solar flares are great as Mars enters Sagittarius on the evening of October 27th
setting up some dangerous TSQ's

Geomagnetic Storms Arriving
Even though NOAA forecasters have downgraded the chance of a severe geomagnetic storm on Oct. 25th to only 1%,
more may be arriving by October 27th
Nevertheless, high-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for auroras as a solar wind stream continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.

Oct. 22, 2010: Right on time for a Full Moon in the very last degree of Aries @ 6:37 PM PDT which turns quickly into Taurus @ 7:29 PM
Thus the Taurus Moon opposes Mercury-Vesta-Venus-Mars all in Scorpio to bring us to this close call.

ASTEROID FLYBY:
Asteroid 2010 TG19 is flying past the Earth-Moon system today, Oct. 22nd, only 24,000 miles beyond the orbit of the Moon.
The 70-meter space rock is about twice the size of the asteroid or comet that flattened a forest in Siberia in 1908.
In this case, however, there is no danger of a collision. Astronomers at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in Italy photographed the asteroid's approach on Oct. 21st using a 20-inch telescope: image.

Oct. 20, 2010: Moon enters Aries for a major buildup toward the Full Moon on Friday Oct. 22nd @ 6:37 PM
Aries is about confrontations and collisions - get ready!

A Newly Discovered Comet Plunges toward the Sun
SUNDIVING COMET: A newly-discovered comet (Oct. 19th) is plunging toward the sun for a close encounter it probably will not survive.
. Chinese comet hunter Bo Zhou found it on Oct. 19th in SOHO coronagraph images. The comet is faint now, but it should brighten in the hours ahead as it heats up.
Watch the movie detailing the encounter with the Sun.
The comet is too deep in the sun's glare for human eyes to pick out, but it is showing up nicely in coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Oct. 18, 2010: Power is rising as we head toward a solar Full Moon in Aries
with both Moon and Sun in the 29th degree of Cardinal Signs.

MEGA SOLAR FILAMENT:
An awesome, monstrous, jaw-dropping, 400,000 km long filament of magnetism is stretched across the sun's southern hemisphere. If it collapses or erupts, as filaments often do, the result could be an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection. Meanwhile it is a fine target for backyard solar telescopes.
FILAMENT UPDATE: Magnetic instabilities in the filament caused an eruption today around 1600 UT. The filament was not destroyed, nor was material hurled toward Earth. SDO movies: mpeg, m4v

The filament is now much larger than the distance from the Earth to the Moon. This is the largest feature many of us amateur solar astronomers have EVER seen.

Oct. 17, 2010: The time is right for Comet Watching with a mysterious Pisces Moon
meeting Jupiter-Uranus and trine Mars and Venus in Scorpio for expansive vistas

Best Time to See Comet Hartley
For backyard stargazers, the next few nights are the best time to see green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 as it approaches Earth for an 11-million-mile close encounter on Oct. 20th.
Set your alarm for the dark hours before dawn, go outside, and look straight up. You will find Hartley 2 not far from the bright star Capella: sky map.
Although the comet is barely visible to the unaided eye, it is easy to find in binoculars and looks great through a backyard telescope.
On Oct. 17th, English astronomer Nick Howes made a two-hour exposure of the comet using the robotic Faulkes North Telescope in Hawaii:

Oct. 16, 2010: When Sunspot 1112 erupted today, it was a major and shocking event with Moon in Aquarius
square Venus and Mars
Gemini was rising at UT in Greenwhich putting the ruler Mercury conjunct the Sun

M2.9 Solar Flare / Solar Update
Sunspot 1112 erupted today at 1900 UT, producing the brightest solar flare in nearly three months. Click here to view a movie of the M1-class explosion from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observator
An M2.9 Solar flare has taken place around Sunspot 1112 which is located in a geoeffective position for any possible earth directed CME's. A minor Radio Blackout has taken place. Sunspot 1112 now has a Beta-Magnetic configuration and poses a threat for another M-Class event.
View the

Oct. 15, 2010: Mars and Jupiter in an active and expansive trine and with the Aquarian Moon the shockwaves are felt from a long distance

The Great Solar Filament
A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the sun's southern hemisphere today. Run a finger along the golden-brown line in this extreme UV image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory and your digit will have traveled more than 400,000 km:
The biggest thing on the sun today is not a sunspot--and it's not even close. A dark magnetic filament 20 times wider than a typical sunspot is meandering across the sun's southern hemisphere. It's so big, astrophotographer Pete Lawrence of Selsey, UK, had to stitch together several pictures to display the entire structure:

Oct. 5, 2010: The Owl cluster located in the constellation Cassiopeia
is also a symbol of Pallas Athene who is goddess of foresight & knowledge
On Oct. 7th when comet Hartley glides by Pallas Athene makes an ingress into Sagittarius
offering us a larger view and oversight of the entire univers .

Comet Hartley Meets the Owl
The comet show continues. After visiting the Pacman nebula on Oct 1st and 2nd, green Comet 103P/Hartley 2 is now paying a call on the Owl cluster.
Readers with wide-field telescopes are encouraged to monitor the comet's busy track across Cassiopeia in the nights ahead--especially Oct. 7th and 8th when the comet glides a mere 1o from the photogenic Double Cluster. Details and a sky map are available from from Sky & Telescope.

Oct. 2, 2010: Wow! Two full moon's in Aries and the last degrees of the Grand Fire Trine with Juno (Leo) to Ceres(Sag.) to Astrae (Aries) all reflect more solar activity with reactions on earth

New Solar Activity on the Farside
On October 1st a bright coronal mass ejection blasted away from the far side of the sun: SOHO movie.
The source appears to be a magnetic active region that formed just a few days ago, invisible from Earth because it is so far over the sun's western limb. However, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has a good view of the area.

Oct. 1, 2010: Comets are in myth and legend are known as messengers of new agendas
By the time Oct. 20th arrives along with Comet Hartlley2, Pallas will have entered Sagittarius after a long transit in Scorpio
In Sagittarius, Pallas Athene allows us to see and understand a "large scale vision" of our universe.

Green Comet Approaching:
Green comet 103P/Hartley 2 is approaching Earth for a close encounter on Oct. 20th. At that time, the comet will be only 11 million miles from Earth and should be dimly visible to the naked eye from dark sky sites. It already looks great through backyard telescopes. Italian amateur astronomer Toni Scarmato took this picture on Sept. 29th using a 10-inch reflector:

Two weeks after Comet Hartley has its close encounter with Earth, NASA will have a close encounter with the comet. The EPOXI spacecraft (formerly known as Deep Impact) is hurtling toward Comet Hartley now, and on Nov. 4th it will fly 435 miles from the comet's active icy nucleus. The encounter will mark only the fifth time in history that a spacecraft has been close enough to image a comet's core.

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September 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
Looking at some spectacular sights with September's Northern LIghts Gallery
September is highlighted by an incredible new moon in Virgo on September 8th @ 6:30 AM PDT
Then on September 23rd. the Harvest Moon in Aries aligned with Jupiter-Uranus opposing the Sun in Libra
September also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms

Sept. 29, 2010: Discoveries are coming hot and heavy and this exoplanet
is just in time for the Mercury (Virgo) opposition to Uranus (Pisces) and today TSQ the Moon in knowledge oriented Gemini,

Alien World Tour: The Exoplanets Around Star Gliese 581

Life Likely on Newfound Earth-Size World
The announcement today of two newfound alien planets circling the star Gliese 581 adds to the nearby solar system's intrigue, further cementing its status as a top candidate to harbor extraterrestrial life.
One of the two newly discovered planets, known as Gliese 581g, is a small, Earth-like world that likely lies within its star's habitable zone — the just-right range of distances that allow liquid water to exist.
Astronomers have now detected six planets orbiting Gliese 581, the most known to circle any star beyond our own sun. Here's a brief tour of the star and its planets, from the inside out:
Gliese 581 is a red dwarf located 20.5 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Libra. Like other red dwarfs, it's smaller and much dimmer than our sun. Scientists believe Gliese 581 is old — at least a few billion years — and relatively stable. Both are qualities conducive to the evolution of life, scientists have said.

Sept. 28, 2010: Who could ask for more as in expansive sights with Jupiter closes to the earth on the Fall Equinox
Plus Jupiter traveling with Uranus in crazy Pisces
and a second Full Moon in Aries (where the Sun is exalted) happening on Oct. 22nd.

ECLIPSE SEASON FOR SDO:
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth, always hovering directly above a ground station near Las Cruces, New Mexico, where two large dish antennas receive SDO's record-breaking data stream.
"SDO has entered eclipse season. Around the time of the equinoxes, the spacecraft, Earth, and sun can line up almost perfectly. Once a day for about an hour, Earth blocks SDO's view of the sun." This occasionally produces strange results, like this:

"Now we know," says Seguin, "what it would look like if Jupiter and the sun had a child."
Seriously, this is a composite of multiwavelength images and a magnetogram taken by SDO just as the sun was emerging from its daily blackout. "Magnetograms are computed from a series of images taken over a short time span. The ribbons of color result from Earth's motion across the sun during the series of exposures."

Sept. 23, 2010: Fall Equinox with Sun near Saturn opposing the Moon-Jupiter and Uranus for amazing events.

The September 22nd. Equinox Explained
The September equinox occurs at 03:09 (or 3:09am) Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on September 23, 2010.
Or on 8:09 PM PDT on the evening of September 22nd.

The sun crosses the celestial equator and moves southward in the northern hemisphere during the September equinox. The location on the earth where the sun is directly overhead at solar noon is known as the subsolar point. The subsolar point occurs on the equator during the September equinox and March equinox.

Dispelling the “exactly 12 hours of daylight” myth
During the equinox, the length of night and day across the world is nearly, but not entirely, equal. This is because the day is slightly longer in places that are further away from the equator, and because the sun takes longer to rise and set in these locations. Furthermore, the sun takes longer to rise and set farther from the equator because it does not set straight down - it moves in a horizontal direction.

Sept. 22, 2010: A precursor to tomorrow's incredible Aries Harvest Moon @ 2:17 AM PDT
A grand fire trine with Juno-Astrea and Ceres lights up the sky along with Mars-Venus in Scorpio with the Nodes

SOUTHWESTERN FIREBALL:
Last night (Sept. 21st) around 09:01 pm MDT, a dazzling fireball glided across the skies of New Mexico and west Texas. "We’ve been getting a lot of calls in the newsroom about an object – maybe a meteorite – falling from the sky," says Peter St. Cyr of KOAT TV in Albuquerque. An all-sky camera outside Santa Fe caught the object in flight. Click on the image to launch a 5 MB movie:

"It took 23 seconds to cross the sky and was nearly as bright as the full Moon," says Thomas Ashcraft, who operates the camera. "The fireball made a sonic boom loud enough to be heard inside above fan noise and household din. At first I thought it was thunder."

Sept. 21, 2010: Sun opposes Jupiter exactly @ 4:36 AM PDT or 7:36 AM EDT
a time of moral confrontations, ethical debates, and over-confiedent decisions based the rule of law or hoax?
Authorities of all kinds will struggle also with Sun opposing Uranus @ 9:59 AM
when astrologers call this the morning of the shocking oppositions.

Tonight, Earth and Jupiter converge for their closest encounter until 2022. The giant planet will soar overhead at midnight, outshining everything except the Moon itself. At this time, even a small telescope pointed at Jupiter will reveal the planet's moons, cloud belts and swirling storms. Take a look!

If Jupiter is up at midnight, it must be opposite the sun: diagram. Indeed, astronomers call this "Jupiter's night of opposition." The effect of opposition may be seen in the shadow of Jupiter's moon Io, shown here in a photo taken last night by Anthony Wesley of Australia:

Sept. 18, 2010: Energies are building as expansive Jupiter meets Uranus and the Sun is opposing both.

BIG SUNSPOT: One of the biggest sunspots of new Solar Cycle 24 is rotating around the sun's southeastern limb. Presenting ... active region 1108:

Rogerio Marcon took the picture yesterday from his backyard observatory in Campinas, Brasil. Although the sunspot is big---the primary core is twice as wide as Earth--it has not yet produced any significant eruptions, only a smattering of B-flares and one C-class event. The quiet may be temporary. The sunspot's magnetic field harbors energy for major activity. NOAA forecasters estimate a 25% chance of an M-flare during the next 24 hours.

Sept. 16, 2010: The Sun-Jupiter opposition occurs exactly on Sept. 21st @ 4:36 AM
and happens right before the Sun-Uranus oppositon and could mean everything from expansionism to meglomania on the social side
More and more predictions are coming in about the potential for major earth changes
since the Sun will be heliocentrically opposing the Moon-Earth-Jupiter-Uranus-Venus.
The Fall Equinox occurs at 8:09 PM on the evening of Sept.22nd. @ 8:09 PM

Closest Encounter with Jupiter until 2022
Sept. 15, 2010: Been outside at midnight lately? There's something you really need to see. Jupiter is approaching Earth for the closest encounter between the two planets in more than a decade--and it is dazzling.
The night of closest approach is Sept. 20-21st. This is also called "the night of opposition" because Jupiter will be opposite the sun, rising at sunset and soaring overhead at midnight. Among all denizens of the midnight sky, only the Moon itself will be brighter.
Earth-Jupiter encounters happen every 13 months when the Earth laps Jupiter in their race around the sun. But because Earth and Jupiter do not orbit the sun in perfect circles, they are not always the same distance apart when Earth passes by. On Sept. 20th, Jupiter will be as much as 75 million km closer than previous encounters and will not be this close again until 2022.
The view through a telescope is excellent. Because Jupiter is so close, the planet's disk can be seen in rare detail--and there is a lot to see. For instance, the Great Red Spot, a cyclone twice as wide as Earth, is bumping up against another storm called "Red Spot Jr." The apparition of two planet-sized tempests grinding against one another must be seen to be believed.
Also, Jupiter's trademark South Equatorial Belt (SEB) recently vanished, possibly submerging itself beneath high clouds. Researchers say it could reappear at any moment. The dramatic resurgence would be accompanied by a globe-straddling profusion of spots and cloudy swirls, clearly visible in backyard telescopes.

Sept. 15, 2010: More amazing discoveries using Hubble photos reflects the applying Mercury oppositon to Uranus when innovation makes the news.

14 Big Space Rocks Discovered Beyond Neptune
Astronomers have discovered a cache of 14 large space rocks beyond the orbit of Neptune while sifting through archival observations from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Icy rocks like the newfound objects are known as trans-Neptunian objects because they typically reside outside Neptune's orbit. These objects include the former planet Pluto, now classified as a dwarf planet, as well as comets like the famed Halley's comet.
The newfound objects range from 25 to 60 miles across (40 to 100 kilometers), said the researchers.
Most trans-Neptunian objects are faint and hard to spot. To find the new group, researchers searched through Hubble photos for the telltale streaks of light that images of these rocks leave as they move through space during time-lapse exposures. After its initial success, this method could reveal hundreds more trans-Neptunian objects over time, hopeful scientists say.

Sept. 13, 2010: Expect some incredible visuals when the Sept. 10th, CME hits earth today creating amazing auroras
Astrologically the Moon in Sagittarius TSQ Mercury-Sun in Virgo and Jupiter-Uranus in Pisces so we may see some disruptions of the communications grid.

ARCTIC AURORA WATCH:
Sky watchers around the Arctic Circle should be alert for auroras on Sept. 13th. That's when a coronal mass ejection (CME) might deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. Check the updated aurora gallery for a preview.

Sept. 11, 2010: Here on earth we are dealing with planets changing signs like Mercury tomorrow and Pluto on Sept. 13th
The News Media (Mercury) will start revealing much of the hidden information (Pluto) about the Sun
The Sun in Virgo which will soon oppose Uranus (Sept. 18th) for some shocking aspects to these recent solar eruptions.

Major New Solar Eruption
During the waning hours of Sept. 10th, a magnetic filament in the sun's northern hemisphere erupted: SDO movie.
Unlike other recent eruptions on the sun, this one might affect Earth. Beacon data from NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft show a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) racing away from the blast site.
The cloud could hit our planet's magnetic field in about two days. Stay tuned for more information and improved forecasts.

Sept. 10, 2010: I said that this was an "explosive new moon" in my blog
Don't let the fact that Jupiter-Uranus are together in a water sign Pisces -
it is about the planets more than the sign when it comes to the unexpect event which can rock the world.
We also have a Grand Fire Trine with Juno-Leo to Ceres-Sagittarius to Astrae-Aries (Retro)
Today Moon approaching Mars with Mars now Void of Course and heading into Scorpio on Sept. 14th when Pluto stations direct

San Diego Fireball/Meteor September 10, 2010

Sept. 10, 2010: Jupiter retrograde and heading toward a conjunction with Uranus on Sept. 18th. as shockwaves reverberate all over the Solar System.

FIREBALLS LIGHT UP JUPITER
In a paper published Sept. 9th in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a group of professional and amateur astronomers announced that Jupiter is getting hit surprisingly often by small asteroids, lighting up the giant planet's atmosphere with frequent fireballs

September 8, 2010: The excitement continued into the evening reflected by the New Moon in Virgo with impending oppositions with both Uranus and Jupiter.
The chart set for 11:30 PM UT has Cancer rising with S Node on the Ascendant and Moon ruler of the Cancer rising chart right on the IC near Mercury and the Sun with Uranus-Jupiter in the 10th ...
for maximum explosive power considering that Saturn-Vesta-Mars-Venus are also in a crowded 4th house and angular. C Class Flare from the Sun Misses EARTH DODGES ANOTHER BULLET: During the late hours of Sept. 8th, just as a sunspot 1105 was turning away from Earth, the active region erupted, producing a long-duration C3-class solar flare (peak @ 2330 UT) and a fantastic prominence. Here is a snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:

The eruption also hurled a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space: SOHO movie. The expanding cloud is heading into a part of the solar system not currently occupied by any planet--it's going to miss everything, including Earth. If such a CME did hit Earth's magnetic field, it would probably trigger strong geomagnetic storms. Maybe next time...

September 8, 2010: The ground currents seem to reflect this strong Virgo Moon opposing Uranus and Jupiter and with Mars ruled Venus now in Scorpio
Venus is in a difficult Quincunx with Uranus and Jupiter calling for nature's powerful adjustments.

GROUND CURRENTS IN NORWAY:
Rob Stammes operates a geomagnetic observatory in Lofoten, Norway, and he is measuring strong ground currents on Sept. 8th:
"Magnetic activity began around 15.00 UT," says Stammes. "The ground currents are much stronger than last night when the auroras were bright. If this continues, we might see an even better display this evening."

September 7, 2010: Just in time for tomorrow's New Moon in Virgo, the sign of perfection
In relationship to LL Pegasi, where the spiral was found is that fixed star Markab is culminating with the Sun.
Markab is a white star on the wing of the Winged Horse, Pegasus

Hubble Spies an Amazing, Perfect Cosmic Spiral
The Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys has captured a remarkable image of a spiral in space. No, not a spiral galaxy, (and not another Norway Spiral!) but the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula in one of the most perfect geometrical spirals ever seen. The nebula, called IRAS 23166+1655, is forming around the star LL Pegasi (also known as AFGL 3068) in the constellation of Pegasus.
The image shows what appears to be a thin spiral pattern of amazing precision winding around the star, which is itself hidden behind thick dust. Mark Morris from UCLA and an international team of astronomers say that material forming the spiral is moving outwards at a speed of about 50,000 km/hour and by combining this speed with the distance between layers, they calculate that the shells are each separated by about 800 years.
The spiral pattern suggests a regular periodic origin for the nebula’s shape, and astronomers believe that shape is forming because LL Pegasi is a binary star system. One star is losing material as it and the companion star are orbiting each other. The spacing between layers in the spiral is expected to directly reflect the orbital period of the binary, which is estimated to be also about 800 years.

September 7, 2010: The Moon enters mutable and dualistic Virgo - where details matter @ 2:53 AM.
then trines deep dark Pluto @ 7:17 AM and finally meeting Mercury @2:13 PM to blast the news buzz.
A chart set for th closest approach of the larger object, 2010 RX30 has 24 Libra 30 rising with Mars-Venus at the ascendant with an opposition to Astraea in Aries with Venus in a difficult Quincunx to Jupiter-Uranus. as force fields shift.

Two asteroids making a close approach to Earth on Next New Moon (Sept.8th)
It passes closest around 2100 UT on the 8th
Within the space of less than an hour on September 5, the Mount Lemmon Survey discovered two objects which will both pass by the Earth on September 8 at a distance closer than the Moon! This unprecedented coincidence provides an exciting observing challenge for amateurs although those observing from the UK will not have the best views.
The intrinsically smaller object, 2010 RF12, will be the more favourable observing target in that it passes closest at about 0.21 lunar-distance, i.e. about 80,000 km. Tonight from the UK (Sep 6/7) this object will be 17th magnitude but by tomorrow (Sep 7/8) it will be brightening rapidly from 16th to 15th magnitude and be accelerating from an apparent speed of about 30 “/min to 50 “/min. It passes closest around 2100 UT on the 8th but by then it will be difficult from any location on the Earth.
The larger object, 2010 RX30, only approaches to within about 0.66 lunar-distances of the Earth but will be more favourably placed for UK observers and should be able to be followed to within about 6 hours of closest approach which takes place around 1000 UT on the 8th. It will be visible all night on Sep 7/8 being 16th magnitude at first but then brightening to 15th mag. The problem however is its apparent speed in that it will be racing across the sky at between 2-5 ARCSEC/SEC. Observers with access to telescopes located in other parts of the world especially in the southern hemisphere could witness 2010 RF12 reach 13th magnitude around 1600-1700 UT on the 8th. As seen visually in a large telescope (30-cm aperture or more), its motion across the sky would be very apparent in real time. Details of the position of the objects can be found here

September 6, 2010: The type of magnetic fields above sunspot 1105 relate to Pluto and Neptune
Today the Leo Moon opposes Neptune in fixed signs while Saturn-Pluto and Jupiter continue in a forceful TSQ
as we approach the Virgo New Moon on Sept. 8th we should expect more solar flares from sunspot 1105.

EXPLOSIVE SOLAR FLARE:
A little more than an hour ago, magnetic fields above sunspot 1105 reconnected, producing a brief but explosive C1-class solar flare.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded a bright flash of extreme UV radiation from the blast site: 0.7 MB movie.
Sunspot 1105 is growing rapidly and seems poised to produce more flares in the hours ahead.

September 5, 2010: A super dramatic Leo Moon sextile's Mars and moves toward a Grand Fire Trine with Astraea in Aries and Ceres in Sagittarius.
When the fireball was seen at 3:15 PM EDT, Capricorn was rising with Mars-Venus in Mid-Heaven
and chart's ruler Saturn in the 9th opposing Jupiter-Uranus in the 2nd TSQ Pluto in the 12th .

From the translation: Huge Fireball Crosses Columbia
The Colombian authorities inquiring if a huge ball of heavenly fire today across the space of several municipalities in the Department of Santander, Northeast, was a meteorite.
Light Amanda Pulido, Director of management of risk of the Ministry of the Interior and justice, said that after inquiry with aviation authorities and the national network of Seismology (RNSC), was discarded has sought a plane in emergency or an earthquake or a geological fault in the area.
Various witnesses said to radio stations and newspapers which saw a ball of fire that pouncing surcó heaven of several municipalities of Santander and then heard a big explosion.
The phenomenon was seen and felt toward the 15: 15 EDT (20: 15 GMT) and "apparently could have been a meteorite", added Pulido.

September 5, 2010: As we head toward an active New Moon in Virgo on September 8th, Sunspot activity increase
with unsual new configurations which reflect the current Sun-Uranus oppositon.

Sunspot 1105 is developing a rash?
RASH SUNSPOT: It looks like the sun has developed rash. Sunspot group 1105 consists of more than 25 tiny spots scattered across an area some 40,000 km wide. Sascha Somodji sends this picture of the busy active region from his backyard observatory in Krefeld, Germany:

Sunspot group 1105 stands in marked contrast to nearby sunspot 1101, which consists of a single dark core. (Click here to see the two side by side.) If sunspot 1101 looks boring, that's because it is. The sunspot's magnetic underpinnings resemble a simple dipole, and the spot is correspondingly quiet. Sunspot group 1105, on the other hand, is much more complicated with a profusion of opposite magnetic polarities popping up and bumping together. Magnetic reconnection is happening there almost non-stop, causing sunspot 1105 to crackle with B-class solar flares. It is, indeed, a "rash sunspot."

September 3, 2010: This probe will plunge directly into the atmosphere of the Sun
and is reminiscent to the bombing of the Moon on Oct. 9, 2009.
This plan is being hatched with Mercury retrograde and Jupiter in bold, risk taking Aries.

NASA MISSION TO TOUCH THE SUN:
NASA's daring plan to visit the sun took a giant leap forward today with the selection of five key science investigations for the Solar Probe+ spacecraft.
Get the full story from Science@NASA.

September 2, 2010: On Sept. 1st when this powerful solar flare blasted off from the far side fo the sun,
lots was happening astrologically.
The moon in mutable Gemini was square the Sun-Mercury in Virgo to start the critical Last Qtr. Moon.
Juno (the partner) was in solar Leo in a square to Pallas in Scorpio, closly Sesquiquadrate both Jupiter and Uranus for major agitation.

FARSIDE ACTIVITY CONTINUES ON THE SUN
On Sept. 1st at 21:55 UT, NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft has detected a strong solar flare on the far side of the sun. The blast produced a flash of extreme UV radiation and hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) over the sun's southwestern limb:

The cloud is heading in the general direction of Saturn and poses no threat to Earth. Like a similar flare reported on Aug. 31st,this event was centered on old sunspot group 1100. Solar rotation will turn the active region back toward Earth for possible geoeffective action in about 7 to 9 days. Stay tuned!

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August 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Fireballs, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests and Northern Lights
August Northern LIghts Gallery
August is highlighted by an incredible new moon in Leo on August 9th @ 8:08 PM PDT
August also means more Auroras, Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms

August 30, 2010: Along with the incredible time speed up reflected by the continued cardinal climax,
alignment with the galactic center and
the movement of the Mayan Calendar thru the galactic underworld phases.
discoveries of new asteroids are proliferating.
Astronomer and programmer Scott Manley, formerly of the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland, has created a movie showing 30 years of asteroid discoveries in only 3 minutes.

Mesmerizing Time-Lapse Shows Every Asteroid Discovered Since 1980 (VIDEO)
The video below, which uses data from the Asteroid Orbital Elements Database, presents a visual history of the asteroids discovered since 1980.
Two white numbers in the lower left-hand corner of the video indicate the year and the number of asteroids known to scientists at that time. Meanwhile, the animation shows the location of these asteroids within the solar system. (As the years pass, new discoveries are highlighted briefly in white. "Earth Crossers" are shown in red, "Earth Approachers" are in yellow, and other asteroids are shown in green.)
In 1980, according to the video, there were only 8,954 known asteroids. By 1990, that number had grown to over 14,000. The YouTube user that uploaded the video explains the new discoveries that took place throughout the 1990s:

August 27, 2010: The past solar minima which created the collapse corresponded with a number of synodic cycles including both Saturn-Uranus and Saturn-Pluto
previously with Saturn-Uranus-Pluto in mutable signs more fluctuation was present
now with Saturn in Libra-Uranus (back in Aries 2011) and Pluto in Capricorn we are ramping up for different effect as the Cardinal Climax continues.

Sun's Fluctuations Caused Partial Collapse of Earth's Atmosphere
As the sun's energy rises and falls, so goes the Earth's atmosphere, a new study suggests.
These fluctuations in the sun's energy explain a recent partial collapse of the Earth's upper atmosphere, which had previously puzzled scientists.
A sharp drop in the sun's ultraviolet radiation levels triggered the collapse, according to the new study, detailed in the Aug. 25 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The researchers also found that the sun's magnetic cycle, which produces differing numbers of sunspots over an approximately 11-year cycle, may vary more than previously thought.
"Our work demonstrates that the solar cycle not only varies on the typical 11-year time scale, but also can vary from one solar minimum to another," said study team member Stanley Solomon of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. "All solar minima are not equal."
Recently, solar activity was at an extreme low. In 2008 and 2009, sunspots were scarce, solar flares almost non-existent, and solar extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) — a class of photons with extremely short wavelengths — was at a low ebb.
During this time, the Earth's thermosphere shrank more than at any time in the 43-year era of space exploration.

August 27, 2010: A Powerful Aries Moon expanding with a meeting with Jupiter
triggers new views/discoveries of energies on the earth and the sun
Is this the infamous Black Hole Sun revealed?
Functions of the eye and telescopes relate to Aries especially when we are dealing with sunspots

FIRST LIGHT FROM THE NEW SOLAR TELESCOPE: Before you read another word, click on the image and take a close look at sunspot 1084:

This is a first light adaptive optics image from the New Solar Telescope (NST) at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California. "With a 1.6-meter primary mirror, the NST is the largest solar telescope in the world," says Nicolas Gorceix of the observatory staff. "It has realtime correction for atmospheric distortion (adaptive optics), so we can see things in very high resolution--as small as 65 km wide on the sun."
"For perspective," he adds, "Earth is slightly smaller than the whole sunspot including the dark umbra and the daisy petal-like penumbra. The spot is surrounded by the sun's ubiquitous granular field [which shows the boiling motions of the sun's surface]."

August 25, 2010: In sympathy to this Full Moon in Pisces, Mercury is opposing Uranus in Pisces for incredible discoveries
while Mercury (by retrograde) trine Pluto is allowing us to probe and detect new planets and systems.
Note that the star they studied, HD 10180, is located 127 light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydrus, the male water snake.

New Solar System Discovered
A solar system with at least five planets is the largest exoplanetary system ever found.
The five detected planets are big, being the size of Neptune. Two other planets may also be present.
A total of 402 stars with planets have been logged since the first was detected in 1995.
European astronomers on Tuesday said they had found a distant star orbited by at least five planets in the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago.
The star is similar to our sun and its planetary lineup has an intriguing parallel with own solar system, although no clue has so far been found to suggest it could be a home from home, they said.
The star they studied, HD 10180, is located 127 light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydrus, the male water snake, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) said in a press release.

August 24, 2010: Full Moon Phase with farout Pisces Moon passing Neptune-Chiron opposing the Sun, then Mercury

SWIFT detect Gamma Ray Bursts from Cygnus x1 and INBOUND toward Earth - to potentially cause G1 Geomagnetic storm.
Remember the event on June 21st when Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds observatory

CYGNUS X-1 = HDE 226868.
With a name that evokes some kind of experimental spacecraft, (located in central Cygnus, along the outstretched neck of the celestial Swan) is actually one of the brightest sources of X-rays in the sky (and the first found in Cygnus). It is associated with a magnificent, massive, blue class O (O9.7) supergiant called HDE ("Henry Draper Extension") 226868 that at ninth magnitude (8.83) is unfortunately not visible to the naked eye (but can readily be seen in a small telescope). Blue supergiants do not radiate significant X-rays unless they are in binary systems. Most do it when there are TWO massive stars (as in Eta Carinae) whose winds collide. Here, though, there is clearly but ONE of these huge stars. Yet variations in the spectrum indeed reveal a companion, an invisible one that is oddly also very massive. Welcome to the best celestial example of the stellar "black hole" and to a fine example of a "high mass X-ray binary," or "HMXB."
From Myth: Then Cycnus, eager to kill the son of almighty Zeus [Hercules], struck upon his shield with a brazen spear, but did not break the bronze; and the gift of the god saved his foe. But the son of Amphitryon, mighty Heracles, with his long spear struck Cycnus violently in the neck beneath the chin, where it was unguarded between helm and shield

August 20, 2010: Sun exalted and dignified in Leo opposing Neptune while Mars-Venus heat up togeher in Libra
and Jupiter in primal fire of Aries TSQ Saturn-Pluto

CORONAL HOLE TURNS TO FACE THE EARTH;
A coronal hole on the sun is turning to face Earth. Coronal holes are places in the sun's atmosphere where the magnetic field opens up and allows solar wind to escape. Here is a magnetic map of the hole from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

A stream of solar wind flowing from this coronal hole is expected to reach Earth on August 24th or 25th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives.

In the image, magnetic field lines are color-coded. White field lines are closed; they hold the solar wind in. Golden field lines are open; they allow the solar wind out. A stream of solar wind flowing from this coronal hole is expected to reach Earth on August 24th or 25th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives.

August 20, 2010: In sympathy with the CME's hitting Venus and Mercury today
Venus is conjunct Mars in Libra an aspect of controlled passion and Mercury moves retrograde in Virgo till Sept. 12th.

Venus and Mercury Blasted by Recent Solar Storms
Update: Well, it turns out that while it looks like Venus and Mercury are getting pummeled by Coronal Mass Ejections, the geometry might not work out, at least not for every day that is included in the video above. UT reader Steven Janowiecki brought it to my attention that just because Mercury and Venus look close to the Sun doesn't mean they're actually in the line of fire, as they could be well behind or in front of the solar storm. I checked with STEREO project scientist Dr. Joseph Gurman, who took a look at the data. He put together a plot for August 14, (see below) and said, "It shows that Mercury and Venus are well to the East (left) of the Sun-earth line. The large CME on the 14th originated from an active region near the west limb of the Sun, and since most CME's are about 60 degrees of heliolongitude in width on average, it's unlikely that that event actually passed by Mercury or Venus." There was one large event, however, on August 7, that appeared likely to be headed in the direction of Mercury and Venus.

August 16, 2010: Fixed Signs are in explosive angles: Moon/Scorpio TSQ Sun/Leo and Neptune-Chiron/Aquarius as an active First Qtr. Moon Phase begins.
Conflagrations and reckless action reflect the Cardinal Crunch heading into an expanded phase with the Titans Saturn-Jupiter opposing in Libra-Aries.

Three CME'S Blast off from the Sun this Weekend.
It was a busy weekend on the sun. Explosions propelled three bright coronal mass ejections (CMEs) into space, shown here in a sequence of coronagraphs from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory:

None of the clouds is heading directly toward Earth. CME #1 could deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Aug. 17th. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of high-latitude geomagnetic activity when the cloud arrives. CMEs #2 and #3, on the other hand, are expected to miss entirely.

CME #1 was the end result of a complex eruption involving two sunspot groups (1093 and 1099), a C4-class solar flare, and a lot of magnetic reconnection. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event in detail. Must-see movies include a close-up and the big picture.

August 14, 2010: Libra is all about working together in collaboraton or tandem
and today as sunspots 1093 and 1099 erupted
the Libra Moon was leading Saturn-Vesta-Venus and Mars on to the Ascendant with an explosive opposition to Jupiter-Uranus TSQ the Nodes and Pluto

SUNSPOTS ERUPT IN TANDEM:
Today at 1005 UT, magnetic fields connecting sunspot 1093 and 1099 erupted, producing a two-sunspot solar flare (C4-class) and hurling a huge blob of plasma into space. Click on the image to launch a Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) movie of the event:

The explosion lasted for more than two hours, giving many amateur astronomers time to catch the eruption in action. Other than photo-ops, however, this explosion will probably not affect Earth much. The cloud ejected by the blast is not heading our way.

August 9, 2010: Tonight's Leo New Moon @ 8:08 PM PDT reflects much of the continued action on the Sun
We now have active sunspots 1092 and 1093 joined by new sunspots 1095 and 1096
The Cardinal Climax which includes both Uranus and Jupiter in Aries (where the Sun is exalted) goes into a new dimension with TSQ to Saturn-Mars and now Venus (Libra) all square Pluto.

INCOMING CME:
The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a significant Earth-directed component. Click on the image to launch a "difference movie" of the expanding cloud:

The impact of this lopsided CME probably won't trigger a major geomagnetic storm---but the SOHO data show it could be bigger than expected. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the cloud arrives probably on August 10th.

August 9, 2010: In sympathy with today's Sun-Moon in Leo (ruler the Sun) and
Venus in balancing Libra opposing Jupiter in Aries (where the Sun is exalted) TSQ Pluto in Capricorn (major earth transformations)
it is no secret that the Sun has amped up activity this year
and that the hotter temperatures accompany that buildup.

Hotter-burning sun warming the planet
The sun is burning hotter than usual, offering a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, Swiss and German scientists say.
"The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures," said Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, who led the research.
"The sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently -- in the last 100 to 150 years," Mr. Solanski said.
Average global temperatures have increased by about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 20 years and are widely believed to be responsible for new extremes in weather patterns.

August 8, 2010: One day before the Solarizing New Moon in Leo
The Moon in Leo opens our hearts as life becomes a magnificent blossome opening to possibilites
with trines to Jupiter and Uranus in Aries.

SOLAR BLAST JUST MISSES EARTH WITH MORE TO COME:
On August 7th (1825 UT), magnetic fields around sunspot 1093 became unstable and erupted, producing a strong M1-class solar flare. Several amateur astronomers caught the active region in mid-flare, while NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded an extreme ultraviolet movie of the entire event:

The eruption hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space, just missing a direct sun-Earth line. Forecasters expect the cloud to deliver no more than a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field when it billows by on August 9th or 10th--not be a major space weather event.

Future eruptions could turn out differently. Active region 1093 is rotating toward Earth. By the end of this weekend, we'll be in the line of fire if its magnetic fields become unstable again

August 6, 2010: This is an amazing Libra alignment starting on the Leo New Moon
with Venus leading will offer a dazzling display
and challenge eht concepts of war and justice.
Also fixed star Ankaa ( a star on the neck of the mythical Phoenix) is culminating with Mars
Ankaa and Mars could be explosive in a revolutionary way with the the phoenix's tendency to burst into flame and the connection to gunpowder.
Venus is also culminating with another Star - Alpheratz which deals with social or religious conscience - Alpheratz is found in the head of Andromeda, the Chained Woman
With Venus,Alpheratz per Robson means good health, being fond of pleasure and society, fortunate for speculation .

Planets Align for the Perseid Meteor Shower and a Leo New Moon
August 5, 2010: You know it's a good night when a beautiful alignment of planets is the second best thing that's going to happen.
Thursday, August 12th, is such a night. sky map. Perseids 2010
A Perseid meteor photographed on Aug. 12 2009 by Jimmy Westlake, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

The planets will hang together in the western sky until 10 pm or so. When they leave, following the sun below the horizon, you should stay, because that is when the Perseid meteor shower begins. From 10 pm until dawn, meteors will flit across the starry sky in a display that's even more exciting than a planetary get-together.
The Perseid meteor shower is caused by debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Every 133 years the huge comet swings through the inner solar system and leaves behind a trail of dust and gravel. When Earth passes through the debris, specks of comet-stuff hit the atmosphere at 140,000 mph and disintegrate in flashes of light. These meteors are called Perseids because they fly out of the constellation Perseus.
Swift-Tuttle's debris zone is so wide, Earth spends weeks inside it. Indeed, we are in the outskirts now, and sky watchers are already reporting a trickle of late-night Perseids. The trickle could turn into a torrent between August 11th and 13th when Earth passes through the heart of the debris trail.

August 4, 2010: As solar storms continue to reign down on earth
we have a Direct Gemini Moon (binary dwarf) with trine to Neptune coming sets the scene for some bizarre outer space sightings
especially with a TSQ to Venus in Virgo and Ceres in the sign of the outer regions, Sagittarius (what we have to let go of)

G1.9 Confirmed Binary Dwarf Star Very Near Sun
Spanish Astronomers Claim Dwarf Sun Beyond Pluto
Scientists at places like NASA and famous observatories have deflected inquiries about the discovery for a few years now, mainly because they feared being associated with these "fringe" theories. But like it or not -- it has happened. Well... According to a team of Spanish artronomers who call themselves the StarViewer Team.
The group made the rounds of all the news web sites in the past two weeks, claiming they discovered something very significant. It's almost twice the size of Jupiter and just beyond our furthest planetoid, Pluto. Although it's not a planet, it appears to have planets or large satellites encircling it. It's what astronomers call a "brown dwarf star" and its official name is "G1.9".

August 4, 2010: Just like the current Cardinal Cross - The Solar Tsunami is Still in Effect!

GEOMAGNETIC STORM--MORE TO COME
The solar storm of August 1st sent two CMEs toward Earth. The first one arrived yesterday, August 3rd, sparking mild but beautiful Northern Lights over Europe and North America
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on August 3rd at 1740 UT. The impact sparked a G2-class geomagnetic storm that lasted nearly 12 hours--time enough for auroras to spread all the way from Europe to North America. Shawn Malone of Marquette, Michigan, photographed this display over Lak
The second CME is still en route. NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of major geomagnetic storms when the cloud arrives on August 4th or 5th.

August 3, 2010: The cardinal crunch with Saturn-Mars Opp Jupiter-Uranus TSQ Pluto supplied the punch
Venus ruler of the transiting Moon in Taurus trine Venus along with Moon sq. Neptune supplies the beauty and imagery of the auroras.

CME's and Northern Lights
The first of possibly two incoming CMEs hit Earth's magnetic field today at approximately 1730 UT (1:30 pm EDT). As a result of the impact, a polar geomagnetic storm is brewing. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras after nightfall.

UPDATE: Northern Lights are being sighted now in Europe. Jesper Grønne sends this picture from Denmark (latitude +56 degrees):

August 2, 2010: It was inevitable with Venus-Vesta together iwth Mars-Saturn conjunct in Libra opposing Jupiter-Uranus in Aries
and all of them TSQ Pluto in Capricorn
Moon @ 29 degrees Aries square Ceres in Cancer that something BIG would happen and this Solar Eruption takes the cake.

COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN
This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun's northern hemisphere erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action:
Click on this image to launch the movie:

The timing of these events suggest they are connected, and a review of SDO movies strengthens that conclusion. Despite the ~400,000 km distance between them, the sunspot and filament seem to erupt together; they are probably connected by long-range magnetic fields.
In this movie (171 Å), a shadowy shock wave (a "solar tsunami") can be seen emerging from the flare site and rippling across the northern hemisphere into the filament's eruption zone. That may have helped propel the filament into space.
In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd.

August 2, 2010: - The Taurus Moon Begins to lead us into the critical last qtr. phase
Even with fixed Taurus Moon TSQ Sun in Leo-Neptune in Aquarius
Cardinal energies fan the flames as Mars-Saturn are together in Libra opp. Juptier-Uranus in Aries all TSQ Pluto (the destroyer in Capricorn)

NEW MEXICO FIREBALL:
Dawn came early to New Mexico on Saturday, July 31st, around 4:54 am local time when a brilliant meteor exploded near Santa Fe. "It turned night into day," says amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft who recorded the fireball using an all-sky video camera: This Movie Captures the Event

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July 2010 - A Month of Super Intense Solar Activity, CME's, Multiple Sunspots, Mysterious Objects, NLC's, Near Earth Asteroids, Space storms trigger earth's tempests
July is highlighted by a Total Solar Eclipse on July 11th. visible over the South Pacific
July also means more Incredible Sky Phenomena, New Sunspots Emerge, Solar Flares & Eruptions, Auroras, Deep Space Discoveries, Crazy Planetary Weather, Comets and Geo-Magnetic Storms

July 28, 2010: As Above So Below:
explosive activity here on earth reflects the building Mars (Libra) oppsoition to Uranus-Jupiter in solar Aries >P>SOLAR ACTIVITY PICKS UP:
Earlier today, magnetic fields looping over the sun's southeastern limb became unstable and erupted. The blast produced a bright, towering prominence that attracted the attention of amateur astronomers around the world. Meanwhile, on the sun's northeastern limb, a big new sunspot is emerging and it is crackling with C-class solar flares.
Today around 1200 UT, magnetic fields looping over the sun's southeastern limb became unstable and erupted. The blast produced a towering prominence dozens of times taller than Earth itself:

Site Last Updated July 27, 2010 - Mercury enters more concise, practical and detailed Virgo @ 2:43 PM to clarify our communications
Mercury joins Venus, Vesta and Mars in the sign of the Virgin formerly Asteus the Goddess of Justice
Our minds are now wrapped up in the need to commit fully (Vesta) to practical yet fun projects.

"With reknowed Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu soaked in twilight colors and city lights from Solo shining like stars, four of the major planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn lined up in a row above western horizon."

Venus, Mars and Saturn are converging for a rare three-way conjunction in August. The show reaches its peak on August 12th and 13th when the crescent Moon in Libra joins them for a sunset gathering of surpassing beauty.

July 28, 2010: Mars will enter Libra tomorrow to join Saturn in a powerful opposition to Jupiter-Uranus in forceful Aries all TSQ Pluto in Capricorn

SPACEQUAKES DETECTED NEAR EARTH:
Researchers using NASA's THEMIS spacecraft have discovered a form of space weather that packs the punch of an earthquake and plays a key role in sparking bright Northern Lights. Get the full story here - Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth

July 27, 2010: Mercury enters more concise, practical and detailed Virgo @ 2:43 PM to clarify our communications
Mercury joins Venus, Vesta and Mars in the sign of the Virgin formerly Asteus the Goddess of Justice

Breathtaking Planetary Alignment to View
"Standing on the summit of Mount Lawu, 3265m above sea level on July 21st, I was treated to one of the most beautiful views of my life," reports Jia Hao of Java, Indonesia. "With reknowed Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu soaked in twilight colors and city lights from Solo shining like stars, four of the major planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn lined up in a row
Venus, Mars and Saturn are converging for a rare three-way conjunction in August. The show reaches its peak on August 12th and 13th when the crescent Moon joins them for a sunset gathering of surpassing beauty.

July 26, 2010: One day after a magnificent Full Moon in Aquarius where the Sun is trine Jupiter is solar oriented Aries

Phoenix or Angel? Huge prominence seen emanating from sun
The astronomy photo of the day comes courtesy of NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric (SOHO) orbiting solar observatory. An enormous, fiery, winged shape can be seen as if emerging from the sun’s broiling surface to the upper right of the occlusion disk. For extra win, a trail of pixie dust follows it.

July 25, 2010: Heading toward the Full Moon on Sunday with Leo Sun-Mercury (relating to sports like cricket)
opposing the moon and Neptune in Aquarius for farout objects brought to earth

'Meteorite' lands on cricket pitch during county match
When two spectators standing on the boundary at a cricket match saw an object hurtling down from the sky, their first instinct might have been to applaud.
However Jan Marszel, 51, and Richard Haynes, 52, were not witnessing a six, but an extremely rare meteor strike.
The rock, a few inches long and believed to be up to 4.5 billion years old, broke in two when it hit the ground in front of them close to the pitch.

July 23, 2010: Even though this picture was taken on July 21st., sunspot 1089 and preceding 1087 have been severly active this month
Note that: The Sun in solar-dramatic Leo trines Uranus in dynamic Aries (sun is exalted) today
Jupiter turns retro. in Aries and will trine the Sun on July 26th -

SUNSPOT SUNSET:
Sunspot 1089 has grown so large, it can now be seen without the aid of a solar telescope. On July 21st, Gil Esquerdo "spotted it" as the sun set over Kitt Peak, Arizona:

Esquerdo was located on adjacent Mt. Hopkins. "Twice a year, the sun sets behind Kitt Peak as seen from the ridge on Mt. Hopkins and the Whipple Observatory," he says. "Our monsoon thunderstorms cooperated long enough for me to photograph the event."
Caution: Although sunspot 1089 is large enough to see with the naked eye, looking for it is not recommended. Even when sunlight is dimmed by clouds and haze, you can still suffer permanent eye damage by staring too long at the unfiltered sun. Be careful.

July 17, 2010: Now that we are moving into Solar Maximum reflected by the current Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Aries
we need to watch the clues in the way the thermosphere rebounds. Solar minimum is now coming to an end, EUV radiation is on the rise,

PUZZLING COLLAPSE OF THE THERMOSPHERE:
Researchers are puzzling over a sharper-than-expected collapse of Earth's upper atmosphere during the deep solar minimum of 2008-09. "Something is going on that we do not understand," says John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding.
Get the full story here

July 15, 2010: At the time of the blinding of the observatory(June 21, 2010), the Sun was in a close square to Uranus-Jupiter in explosive Aries

Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds observatory
A violent cosmic explosion has unleashed the brightest blast of X-rays ever detected from distant space, a signal so bright it temporary blinded the NASA space telescope assigned to spot it.
The powerful explosion, called a gamma-ray burst, was detected by NASA's Swift observatory, scientists announced Wednesday. Gamma-ray bursts are narrow beams of intense radiation shot out when stars explode in supernovas. In addition to gamma-ray light, they also produce X-rays and other forms of radiation, including visible light.
This recent event, dubbed GRB 100621A, was particularly powerful.

July 14, 2010: Moon enters Virgo today to join Regulus - Venus-Vesta-Mars and Saturn over the next two days.
Luna will translate these mutable, earth-centered energies for a major shift of consciousness.

Sunset Planetary Alignment
Last night on the Atlantic coast of Portugal, Miguel Claro photographed Venus, Mars and Saturn all in a row:

Tonight the crescent Moon joins the show. It will appear beside Venus at the end of the line. For the rest of the week, the Moon will planet-hop from Venus to Mars to Saturn on successive nights.
Sky maps: July 14, 15, 16.

July 11, 2010: The New Moon Solar Eclipse occurs with Sun-Moon @ 20 degrees Cancer

An interesting Sabian Symbol for 20 degrees Cancer reflects how we need to break thru the armor and defenses within and without.
"The main gate of a castle, guarded by a bloodhound and a man in armor.
Seeking to gain admittance, an outsider plys the guard with flattery, whereupon the dog begans to growl. "

Solar Eclipse 11 July 2010 Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

July 10 2010: WOW! The Sun's Ferocity is far from being eclipsed with Sun sextile Mars
Mercury in fiery Leo in a trine to Jupiter-Uranus in Mars ruled Aries .

Solar Activity Surges on the Eve of South Pacific Eclipse
Magnetic fields overlying sunspot 1087 became unstable and erupted yesterday. The explosion emitted a bright flash of UV light (a C3-class solar flare) and hurled a massive plume of hot plasma away from the sun.
Click on the image to watch the action unfold:

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded the 1.5-hour time-lapse movie beginning at 1950 UT on July 9th. SDO has been busy since sunspot 1087 materialized, recording B- and C-class flares every few hours. So far none of the eruptions has been Earth-directed, but this could change in the days ahead as the active region turns to face our planet.

July 7, 2010: Explosive energies burst from sunspot on the far side of the sun.
Here on earth, Uranus in the explosive, solar sign of Aries has stationed retrograde and is moving closer to an opposition with Saturn and TSQ Pluto

Sunspot Turns to Face the Earth
For several days, NASA's STEREO-B space