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No, no, it's not supposed to be a capital S, and therefore it's not someone from my past (even though I had a friend in high school with that name), but it refers to radio waves bouncing off the atmosphere. But why am I bringing this strange phenomenon up, and why now? Good question!
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A few years ago, I signed up to receive newsletters from Spaceweather.com, a news and information website about the Sun-Earth environment. They have many fascination articles, including information on when and where you can watch the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights (in my part of the world).
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The Zooniverse project I started the other day, was a smaller one which ran out of current data, so this morning I began my third one, Solar Jet Hunters. It's something right up my alley, since I've always been strongly attracted to solar research. In fact, if I could start a new career in astrophysics, this would wind up being my course of study. And what timing, since we just had a North American solar eclipse on Monday...
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NASA is looking for its next astronaut class.