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April 16, 2012 Solar Flare seen by Amateur Astronomers
Not only observatories in space can take incredible images of solar activity, but also ground based amateur telescopes take impressive pictures. Here are a few from Monday’s M1-class solar flare.
- Credit: Jim Lafferty from Redlands, California
- Credit: John Minnerath from Crowheart, Wyoming
- Credit: John Stetson from Falmouth, Maine
- Credit: Vahan Yeterian from Lompoc, California
- Credit: Thomas Ashcraft from New Mexico
“ The first true “alien Earth” will likely be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. Astronomers have found more than 750 alien planets to date, and NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has flagged 2,300 additional “candidates” awaiting confirmation by follow-up studies. This haul has not yet included an Earth-like exoplanet — one that’s the size of our planet and orbits at the right distance from its star to support liquid water and, possibly, life as we know it.”
