Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sun Dogs and Exoplanets, Oh My!

Apparently, we ended 2016 and started 2017 with solar flares and winds to boot. I didn't really notice until the appearance of twin sun dogs in the middle of a brightly lit January afternoon.

February is not short on interesting phenomena either. The detection of seven earth-size planets around a sun (Trappist-1) the size of Jupiter in a not-so-distant galaxy.