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#5751
03-24-2019, 08:37 AM
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 The tail end of a solar storm that erupted from the sun earlier this week is expected to smash into Earth's magnetic field this weekend, making the aurora borealis (also known as the northern lights) visible as far south as Chicago. It's the first bit of exciting space weather we've had in many months as we're in the calm period at the end of the current 11-year solar cycle. The smallish solar flare and associated coronal mass ejection that erupted Wednesday also pale in comparison with far stronger and more disruptive blasts that have hit us in the past and almost certainly will again in the future. Perhaps the most famous magnetic storm is the so-called "Carrington Event" in 1859. The storm came at the dawn of our modern technological era and all but knocked the young telegraph system out of commission temporarily while lighting up skies with colorful aurora as far south as current-day Belize and Thailand. 
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#5752
03-24-2019, 08:40 AM
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 Cruising down the Nile in Egypt
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#5753
03-24-2019, 08:41 AM
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 Sistine Chapel in Vatican City
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#5754
03-24-2019, 08:43 AM
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#5755
03-24-2019, 08:45 AM
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 Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. These are Supertrees — which are actually vertical gardens
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#5756
03-24-2019, 08:47 AM
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#5757
03-24-2019, 08:52 AM
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 4.5 million years ago, Jupiter was four times farther away from the Sun than it is today. Analysis of isotopes in meteorites suggests that Jupiter may be so old it formed before the Sun began to shine.
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#5758
03-24-2019, 08:54 AM
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 San Antonio
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#5759
03-24-2019, 08:55 AM
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#5760
03-24-2019, 08:56 AM
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 Tucson, Ariz.
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