SOLAR FLARE FRENZY: Yesterday, the sun produced a sequence of solar flares unlike anything we've seen in years. Earth-orbiting satellites detected a dozen explosions in the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2824. One of them emitted a radio burst so strong, it drowned out static from lightning storms on Earth and was recorded at midnight by listening stations in the Arctic. NOAA forecast models suggest that a CME might hit Earth's magnetic field on May 26th. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.
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Above: Jozef Cukas of Frauenfeld, Switzerland, caught sunspot AR2824 hurling material into space during the solar flare frenzy of May 22nd.
