According to NASA officials you may want to look at the sky early Wednesday morning, that's because the first meteor shower of 2012 is expected to take place.
Welcome to 2012! Of course to bring in the new year, my husband and I watched the movie 2012. Yikes! We've all heard about the Mayan calendar predictions of a solar shift that will cause planets to collide and if that didn't kill us, we would experience violent earthquakes bringing on the end of the world. More YIKES!
NASA has released video of a solar flare that occurred on June 7th.
The massive flare mushroomed up and fell back down appearing to cover almost half the suns surface.
Government officials warn that the flare could cause communication, satellite and power disruptions on earth over the next few days, but the problems should be minimal...
Two more flights remain for U.S. Space Shuttles, then it's lights out for the shuttle program which has flown over 130 missions and fascinated Americans for the last 30 years.
I've always been intrigued by the space shuttle, it's one thing to watch the launch from the ground, but what does it look like if your in a passenger in a jet airliner and your already above the clouds?