winterghosts:

northern lights.

truthmagic:

wish i was seeing this right now.

hanadrama:

I saw the aurora borealis once. It was beautiful. They say many people will be able to see it tonight. If you live up north look for it for me. Even if we could see it here in Charlotte, the light pollution is blocking it out. 

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dendroica:

The Northern Lights dancing across the horizon were photographed in Britain. The aurora borealis are rarely seen in the UK, but specialist photographer Reed Ingram Weir took this photograph on the A1 near Alnwick Northumberland. Picture: MASONS (via Pictures of the day: 24 January 2012 - Telegraph)

therockstarbullcrap:

Massive solar storm hitting Earth now: Can you tell?

Although 2012 has been rumored by some to be the year the world will end, it hasn’t happened yet. Though, cosmically speaking we may be a little more vulnerable right now. On Tuesday (Jan. 24), the Earth is withstanding one of the largest solar storms ever leveled at us by the ever-aggressive sun.

According to the NOAA, a radiation and geomagnetic storm caused by a Coronal mass Ejection (CME) is currently pummeling the Earth, traveling at 1,400 miles per second. And, reports Gizmodo, the rarity of the type of solar storm — a proton storm — is, in fact, dangerous.

The storm could interrupt satellites, global positioning systems (so you may want to bring along a paper map backup if you’re hit with wanderlust) and power grids.

Some airlines are also canceling or changing routes to avoid any danger. Apparently, the protons are capable of interrupting High Frequency radio communications which keep planes in touch with Air Traffic Control.

Also at risk: Astronauts. NASA is advising residents of the International Space Station to stay home and skip any space walks until the storm passes.

(via blog.zap2it.com)

roguexxx:

01.22.12: SDO’s View of M8.7 Solar Flare

feed-the-machines:

Solar flares.

future-physicist:

Solar storm sparks dazzling northern lights

 The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, are seen near the city of Tromsoe, northern Norway, late Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Stargazers were out in force in northern Europe on Tuesday, hoping to be awed by a spectacular showing of northern lights after the most powerful solar storm in six years. 

(Via Associated Press)

unknownskywalker:

Kepler confirms its first planet in habitable zone

The top diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first habitable zone planet discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a star where temperatures are right for water to exist in its liquid form. Liquid water is essential for life on Earth.

Kepler-22’s star is a bit smaller than our sun, so its habitable zone is slightly closer in. The top diagram shows an artist’s rendering of the planet comfortably orbiting within the habitable zone, similar to where Earth circles the sun. Kepler-22b has a yearly orbit of 289 days. The planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest known to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It’s about 2.4 times the size of Earth.

Scientists do not yet know if the planet has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition. It’s possible that the world would have clouds in its atmosphere, as depicted here in the artist’s interpretation.

nationalpost:

Exoplanet meets key requirements for sustaining life: scientists
Scientists say a rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed as the first planet outside our solar system to meet key requirements for sustaining life.

Modelling of planet Gliese 581d shows it has the potential to be warm and wet enough to nurture Earth-like life, they said.

It orbits a red dwarf star called Gliese 581, located around 20 light years from Earth, which makes it one of our closest neighbours.

Gliese 581d orbits on the outer fringes of the star’s “Goldilocks zone,” where it is not so hot that water boils away, nor so cold that water is perpetually frozen. Instead, the temperature is just right for water to exist in liquid form.

Graphic: A model of the possible surface temperatures of planet Gliese 581d (National Centre for Scientific Research/AFP/Getty Images)

alecologia:

Surface temperature maps for simulations of Gliese 581d assuming an atmosphere of 20 bars of CO2 and varying rotation rates. It is currently unknown whether the planet rotates slowly or has permanent day and night sides. In all cases, the temperatures allow for the presence of liquid water on the surface.

[“The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable exoplanet. Two candidates have already been discarded, but a third planet, Gliese 581d, can be considered the first confirmed exoplanet that could support Earth-like life. This is the conclusion of a team of scientists from CNRS/UPMC/ENS/Ecole Polytechnique, at the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris (The Astrophysical Journal Letters)”]. 

is2012factorfiction:

Check this video out before it gets taken down from YouTube AGAIN! For some reason it keeps disappearing. Anyhow…if you watch you will see that some of the dots are definitely reflection from the camera lens. However, the sun and one other is definitely not a reflection off the lens. Planet X?

FYI, Insiders from NASA, DOD National Military Intelligence, SETI, and the CIA speculate that 2/3 of the population of our planet could perish during the coming pole-shift caused by the passage of Planet X. Another 2/3 of those that survive initially could pass away from starvation and exposure to the elements within six months. Most EVERY secretive government agency (so why do we call them secret, right?) in the USA is FULLY AWARE of what is expected and are readying themselves. The Vatican is fully abreast of what is expected. The public is NOT BEING WARNED AND GIVEN THEIR CHANCE TO PREPARE. The volume of leaks from insiders, observatories, and the Vatican is beginning to burst the dam of this disclosure wide open. Will it all be too late? The most important story on earth in over 3000 years is fast breaking loose from being held back by the controllers of the financial markets and major media for fear of panic and financial collapse. Is this why we are seeing more and more information being put out about The New World Order if not to scare us but to keep us in line and keep us from panicking. Maybe this is why they have prepared these FEMA Camps in EVERY STATE in the country to prepare for civil disorder in the coming days.

Not only is our earth experiencing changes on great multitudes (much of it is being kept hush hush) but all the other planets in our solar system are experiencing changes as well. They are experiencing unusual weather, storms, volcanism, and seismic activity. Some are even beginning to appear different. Planet X has been made to sound ridiculous and confusing for several reasons. One of which is to avoid causing panic among the worlds population. If this is the case then why is our own country building a new observatory in the arctic of which is the best to view the incoming Planet X.

Magnetic fields and brightness of the planets are changing. View Venus in the early morning hours to see what I mean by this, it’s very hard not to see it if you are looking it shines extremely bright. As a matter of fact that is what got me so interested in this very subject. Which led me to a monster of information that people were not hearing about and why I write every so often on this blog. Even the other planets appear much much more brighter in the night sky but Venus it is undeniable. It is showing marked luminosity. Jupiter has such a high energetic charge now that there is actually a visible tube of ionizing radiation that has formed between it and it’s moon, of which was never before present. Uranus and Neptune appear to have had recent pole shifts. When Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus and Neptune, the apparent north and south magnetic pokes were sizably offset from where the rotational pole was. In one case, it was 50 degrees off and in the other around 40 degrees which are pretty significant. Even the Sun’s magnetic field increased by 230 percent since 1901. That may not seem like a lot because we are saying since 1901 which is over 100 years ago but it is a huge change. The glowing plasma at the edge of our Solar System has recently increased 1000 percent. Higher charged energy is in turn exciting the plasma and causing more of it to form, so you see more luminosity more brightness,

ALL THIS IS HAPPENING ALL AT THE SAME TIME AND ALL OF IT IS WORKING UP TO A CRESCENDO WHERE THERE IS GOING TO BE A SUDDEN SHIFT. A POLESHIFT.

Please EDUCATE yourself by reading and finding out as much as you can on the topic of pole shift and safe places to be in during that time. Next PREPARE, do what you can to get yourself to that safe location when the time comes and make sure you have supplies to get you through. Many may laugh and scoff at you. It’s okay. They will be the same ones that will ask for you help when the time comes. Keep TRACK of the worlds changes, there will be significant changes that occur when the pole-shift begins. STAY ALERT to these. Many you can find at www.poleshift.ning.com

As always thank you to all at http://poleshift.ning.com/ for all your hard work and dedication. You all are amazing in my book! What do you think?