There are worries that another “Carrington Event” will happen during this solar cycle, and NASA has bee issuing warnings of such. There are great risks to the electric grid and warnings have been issued . Updates will be posted as they happen.
Our venerable Sun is the giver of Light and Life on this planet, it is changing, Earth is changing, we are changing; amazing energetic changes are happening all around us now. There is serious scientific data on this. Check out Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life by Dr. Alexey N. Dmitriev.
Scientists have known for decades that the sun has been getting more energetic and watch it closely. Where one once had to get solar data feeds from the shortwave WWV reports and physically graph it (awaiting the later mailed printed reports), now the internet provides us as much data as we can assess.
Here is a current Solar Cycle Progression Chart:
Current Solar Cycle Progression
- Destroyer of worlds: Astronomers overlaid 11 time lapse images of the rotating star system WR 104 to reveal a 30 billion-kilometre-long tail that billows out in a spiral around it. COSMOS
Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) from space have been known for a few decades, but are still somewhat of a mystery. You can monitor them in real time here.
It has been hypothesized that a GRB within 6,000 light years caused the great extinction at the end of the Ordovician Period * in the Early Paleozoic Erz.
There was recently (March 19, 2008) a powerful GRB 080319B that is recorded as the most distant visible object seen by the naked eye in the universe.
There is also a recent report (March 4, 2008), Binary ‘deathstar’ has Earth in its sights, on a potential GRB site between us and the galactic center. This ‘deathstar’ is the rotating star system WR104 seen at left. It is 8,000 light years away, and 25% of the distance to the galactic center.
There is a Hopi Indian legend of a Blue Star that will signal the end of our age and cause significant catastrophe on Earth. The amazing scientist Paul Laviolette has theorized that the cores of galaxies periodically erupt, in what he has termed a “Galactic Superwave” involving the blue-shifting of energy such as seen in Seyfert Galaxies (quasars). It is now believed that all galaxies are Seyfert galaxies, and it’s hypothesized that the core explosions occur every 10,000 years or so (curiously putting it at roughly 1/2 of our precessional cycle!?). We are apparently due for a galactic core explosion which according to some will provide a blue star rising just prior to the December 21, 2012 sunrise. We’ll know soon!
