There was a huge X-class solar flare yesterday on the Sun!
You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
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You can see it on the right-hand limb in these SDO images.
I find it so neat that we live next to, and can study, a star.
We take it for granted that it's "the Sun" and it's always in the sky, but there is a star and it is RIGHT THERE.
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but we will be long removed by then, i am sure
Especially when it burns my corneas!
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That star belts out radiation. Lots of it. That, and the cosmic radiation will leave any crew sick or dead. We don't have the ability to shield us from our star or the background radiation.
Think too of how many accidentally twisted themselves out of water and died, before a genetic mutation allowed some oxygenation through the air.
We may go through millions of astronauts before one bounces cosmic rays off their DNA.
No shielding has yet to be tested as to efficacy. It's all theoretical at this point.
Curiously the years of an active sun 'deflects' GCTs.
Thus *with a good anti proton shield* solar "stormy weather" is good.
That postulated we really need a set of Aldrin cyclers using small NEOs boosted into better Earth Mars crossing orbits.
Something of a long term solution.
https://pulsarfusion.com/
Some of its staff are ex-JET.
Funding from UK government...
Also
https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Latest-papers.aspx
News to me!
Worse will occur in the future
Our technology level is not permanent until we reach the stars
It's worth noting that the sun is also finishing a pole shift that occurs about every 500,000 years
4068 ?
https://www.spaceweather.com/
Special kind
Goldilocks
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
But
Over the decades I've been tracking the literature it appears it is.
"we show that Proxima and Ξ±βCen are gravitationally bound with a high degree of confidence"
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/02/aa29930-16/aa29930-16.html