This is certainly interesting. The implication: If this theory has it right, then not only does the Sun have an amplified effect on climate (through its interaction with cosmic rays seeding clouds), but much of the last 500 million years of evolution gets an update:
http://calderup.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/a-stellar-revision-of-the-story-of-life/

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I know many of you already track the Astronomy Picture of the Day (on LJ as
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Specifically, look out west. Right now, if you're back East, and in a hour or two for others in the US.


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Stars are big. Our own Sol is middle-sized, but the span is so very great that it's hard to appreciate how big some of them are.

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Here's the best guess as to what happened ( Read more... )

NASA has launched a website discussing -- and explaining a little bit -- what we know about the term "dark energy" which is famously said to account for most (72%) of the stuff in the universe ( Read more... )

I mentioned "southwest" in reference to Mars. Planets have north and south poles too ( Read more... )