Solar Cycle #24 Begins Today

NASA has announced that Solar Cycle 24 starts today and promises to be "Intense." Solar Activity blasts the earth and causes power outages, compasses to spin around and beautiful auroras. So, it's a good time to travel North to gawk at the sky but you might get lost and not be able to come back. Scientists are predicting that this cycle will peak in either 2010 or 2011 and promises to be a doozy. Helps that it peaks right around the time of the Pluto-Saturn-Uranus t-square.

Solar Cycle 24 started out with a bang in California where about 1 millions homes were without power due to some crazy storms. Solar Cycles last 11 years. Here's a link to NASA's article: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/21dec_cycle24.htm.