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What the puck? Hockey goes to Zarmina, Stan Lee to NHL
Could it be that folks noticed the opening week of NHL hockey this year? In the science-fiction sports realm, at least, the Canadian national pastime has been getting a bit of play lately.
Pop astronomy geeks like BuckBokai were certainly intrigued by tales of Gliese 581g, a.k.a. Zarmina, a so-called “Goldilocks Zone” planet 20.5 light-years away on which water may exist and homo sapiens could live – albeit in a narrow band between perpetual scorching sunlight and continuous night.
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Tuesday becomes fry day: Solar Tsunami coming
Again is BuckBokai ducking the strict science-fiction sports paradigm, but since this may be the final missive before huge swathes of the interwebs go down today, I figured you deserved some warning of the incoming tsunami.
That’s solar tsunami, boys and girls, a gen-yoo-ein coronal mass ejection that’s targeted directly at Earth. It seems that this weekend, some partying astronomers notices a little Earth-sized sunspot on the sun which proceeded to unleash a massive solar flare aimed directly at … well, us.
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