Here's today's latest view of the solar flares. WOW! It looks like things have settled down this morning.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012 - I was directed to another good site if you're a science geek and want to see the solar storms on the Live Science website. It's just an fyi.

http://www.livescience.com/18890-huge-solar-flares-erupt-sun.html

Which I think is very cool. How in the world can they get these awesome shots of our sun??? If I wore a hat, I'd take it off to those guys. sunshine ya later, djb