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The evening of October 10, 2024 ( a KP index of 9!) brought another spectacular solar storm our way, triggering displays of the Aurora Borealis across Michigan and elsewhere. The Aurora Borealis appears more frequently at lower latitudes because we are likely...
For those unfamiliar with Europa, it is one of Jupiter's 79 known moons with a water-ice crust. There is a hypothesis that life could exist in the oceans beneath this crust. I read a book by Jeremy Robinson, Beneath, about an expedition to Europa some time ago, a...
Michigan Light Pollution map, from Blue Marble It is 1:30 a.m, and the alarm goes off on my phone. I told my wife I might want to drive to see if I could see any of what's left of the Camelopardalid meteor shower. I said, "I'll set my alarm, and I'll either wake up...