Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
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The Sudbury Neutrino telescope in Canada. The 12-meter sphere contains 12,000 detectors that watch for the light from neutrinos that streak through the water filling the interior of the sphere. (Courtesy - Stanford Solar Center)
This image appears in the #59: Where did all the Neutrinos go? Technology Through Time article.
Space Weather Fact
During intense solar flares, astronauts see bright flashing streaks of light as a result of high-energy particles zipping through their eyeballs.
