- Ok, so there was this recent news blurb about the star Betelgeuse going supernova, and that it could result in an explosion so magnificent, that it would appear in our sky as bright as a second sun, causing perpetual daylight for a month as early as 2012. The article says it won’t have any ill-effects on us, still, I found it pretty creepy and was a bit weirded out that the time-table for it happening was the infamous ’2012′. Full story:
* South Atlantic Anomaly and South Georgia Magnetic Observatory: A magnetic reversal in progress?... Discovery (Aug 25, 2010): IS THE SUN EMITTING A MYSTERY PARTICLE?... LiveScience (29 July 2010): Antarctica Experiment Discovers Puzzling Space Ray Pattern... Nat Geo (Nov 19, 2008): "MYSTERIOUS ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECT that's bombarding Earth with cosmic rays... Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.?:
