RADIATION BELT STORM PROBES: Most spacecraft try to avoid the Van Allen Belts, two doughnut-shaped regions around Earth filled with "killer electrons." Yesterday, NASA launched two heavily-shielded spacecraft directly into the belts.The Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) are on a two-year mission to discover the reason for the belts' dangerous unpredictability. [full story] [video]

BLUE MOON: Tonight's full Moon is the second full Moon this month. According to modern folklore, that makes it a "Blue Moon." Strange but true: Most blue moons look red, pink or gray. On rare occasions, however, the Moon can actually turn blue. A video from NASA explains how.

IONIZATION WAVES: Magnetic fields snaking around the sun's southeastern limb are crackling with C- and M-class solar flares. Extreme UV pulses from the flares are illuminating Earth's upper atmosphere, causing waves of ionization to ripple around the dayside of our planet. Rob Stammes detected the sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) from his laboratory in Lofoton, Norway:

"The extra ionization altered the propagation of very low frequency radio signals around Northern Europe," explains Stammes. "I detected these changes using my 60 kHz SID receiver."    More ionization waves are in the offing. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours.   
                                              

QUIET SUN: Another day, another .... moment of silence? For the 5th day in a row, solar activity is low. None of the sunspots on the Earthside of the sun is actively flaring, and the sun's X-ray output has nearly flatlined.

THE SCALE OF THINGS: For the past few days, amateur astronomers have been monitoring a big cloud of plasma hovering above the sun's eastern horizon. How big is it? Göran Strand of Frösön, Sweden, superposed the Earth and moon on a picture he took to show the scale of things:

"It was an amazing view through my binoviewer," says Strand. "I placed the Earth and moon at their correct separation: 384,400 km apart. This is one big prominence."

The cloud is held aloft by solar magnetic fields. If those fields become unstable then the cloud could collapse, hitting the stellar surface and producing a Hyder flare. Amateur astronomers with backyard solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.
www.spaceweather.com

I couldn't resist including this!  I've seen it a few times and it always makes me chuckle.  I hope you enjoy it.  Messenger Spirit

Awakening as One :  'The Gift'
Adapted from 'The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ'
by Levi H. Dowling, from the Akashic Records

"The great Gift from God to Man is the Gift of Life, which
each one may choose to use, to learn how once again to
see with eyes of soul.”

Note:  Protoplast, from the ancient Greek, 'to mould', initially referred to the first organized body of a species, ie a cell
without a cell wall around it (a cell wall would block the passage of DNA).  Protoplasts are widely used for DNA transformation.

Australian researchers have been astonished to discover a cure-all right under their noses — a honey sold in health food shops as a natural medicine.  Far from being an obscure health food with dubious healing qualities, new research has shown the honey kills every type of bacteria scientists have thrown at it, including the antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” plaguing hospitals and killing patients around the world.

Some bacteria have become resistant to every commonly prescribed antibacterial drug, but scientists found that Manuka honey, as it is known in New Zealand, or jelly bush honey, as it is known in Australia, killed every bacteria or pathogen it was tested on.   It is applied externally and acts on skin infections, bites and cuts.  The findings are likely to have a major impact on modern medicine and could lead to a range of honey-based products to replace antibiotic and antiseptic creams.

The honey is distinctive in that it comes only from bees feeding off tea trees native to Australia and New Zealand, said Dee Carter, from the University of Sydney’s School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences.

Professor Carter’s two sons, Marty, 8 and Nicky, 6, think it’s funny the way their mother puts honey on their sores. But she swears by it, telling stories of how quickly it cures any infection.  “Honey sounds very homey and unscientific, which is why we needed the science to validate the claims made for it,” she said.

The curative properties of various types of honey have been known to indigenous cultures for thousands of years, and dressing wounds with honey was common before the advent of antibiotics.

“Most bacteria that cause infections in hospitals are resistant to at least one antibiotic, and there is an urgent need for new ways to treat and control surface infections,” Professor Carter said.   “New antibiotics tend to have short shelf lives, as the bacteria they attack quickly become resistant. Many large pharmaceutical companies have abandoned antibiotic production because of the difficulty of recovering costs. Developing effective alternatives could therefore save many lives.”

Professor Carter said the fascinating thing was that none of the bacteria researchers used to test the honey, including superbugs such as flesh-eating bacteria, built up any immunity.   She said a compound in the honey called methylglyoxal — toxic on its own — combined in unknown ways with other unidentified compounds in the honey to cause “multi-system failure” in the bacteria.

The results of the research project were published in the European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.

http://www.riseearth.com/2012/08/mysterious-honey-discovered-that-kills.html#more

High above Earth in the realm of meteors and noctilucent clouds, a strange and beautiful form of lightning dances at the edge of space. Researchers call the bolts "sprites"; they are red, fleeting, and tend to come in bunches. Jesper Grønne of Silkeborg, Denmark, photographed these specimens on August 15th:

"After several years of hunting sprites from my location in Denmark, I finally caught some last week--the first danish Red Sprites ever photographed," says Grønne. "They were located 50 km to 90 km above a thunderstorm some 350 km away over the North Sea. There were 2 flashes, each producing 5-6 individual Red Sprites."

"Sprites are a true space weather phenomenon," explains lightning scientist Oscar van der Velde of Sant Vicenç de Castellet, Spain. "They develop in mid-air around 80 km altitude, growing in both directions, first down, then up. This happens when a fierce lightning bolt draws lots of charge from a cloud near Earth's surface. Electric fields [shoot] to the top of Earth's atmosphere--and the result is a sprite. The entire process takes about 20 milliseconds."

Although sprites have been seen for at least a century, most scientists did not believe they existed until after 1989 when sprites were photographed by cameras onboard the space shuttle. Now "sprite chasers" routinely photograph sprites from their own homes. "I used an astro-modified Canon 5D II in video-mode to catch my sprites," says Grønne. Give it a try!
www.spaceweather.com

Published on 29 Jul 2012 by TheSpiritScience

Over the next several weeks, we're going to open up the mailbag and answer frequently asked questions that I get in the Spirit Science inbox. Granted, there's a lot of questions, and I can't be expected to answer all of them. I do want to tackle the big ones though, so that is what I strive to do over the next few weeks.  Stay tuned to Spirit Science in the next few weeks, there's a lot happening and we have lots to talk about!

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This week we talk about two parts of an incredible whole, Male and Female. No, not gender, but energy. There are 3 parts to this one: First, Energy; then we look at Brain Hemispheres, and then the Indigo Children and Super Psychics (because I promised we'd talk about that after lesson 2).

This spirit science will be the last introductory Spirit Science. Thoughts, Chakras, Channeling and Male/Female were important starter topics that i wanted to cover off the bat. Especially Male/Female, you don't even realize yet just how important this one will be.

Enjoy! See you next time!
Jordan                                                           
Uploaded by jordanduchnycz on 9 May 2011 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQzRtkAMN8
[See also: http://www.2012spiritual.info/children-of-the-new-dream.html]

UPDATE: The magnetic filament shown erupting below appears to be connected to an active sunspot on the farside of the sun. A great way to see the farside spot is using NASA's 3D Sun app, which shows our star as a 3-dimensional globe that you can spin and inspect from any angle. Download the app and look around the globe for a hotspot labeled 'farside AR.'That's the farside active region.

Another movie from SDO shows flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation and plumes of plasma flying over the sun's northeastern limb [go to www.spaceweather.com].  These flares herald the approach of the active region. Soon, it will become an Earthside sunspot group and the eruptions, which are missing our planet now, could become geoeffective. Stay tuned for updates.

Magnetic fields snaking over the sun's northeastern limb erupted on August 18th around 01:02 UT. The M5.5 class eruption was not Earth-directed, but it could herald a significant uptick in geoeffective solar activity as the new active region turns toward Earth in the days ahead.

NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory recorded the eruption: ([go to www.spaceweather.com].

SOLAR SLINKY: Solar activity is low this week. Nevertheless, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted something interesting happening on the sun's southwestern limb. Go to www.spaceweather.com to view the "solar slinky" in action:

The loops in the movie are made of magnetism, glowing red-hot because they are filled with 80,000 K solar plasma. They move with slinky-action as they are buffeted by winds in the sun's atmosphere and jostled by minor explosions on the stellar surface below. Of course they are much bigger than a terrestrial slinky. The entire Earth could fit through any of the loops with room to spare.                   www.spaceweather.com

Surrounding our planet like vast invisible donuts (the ones with the hole, not the jelly-filled kind) are the Van Allen radiation belts, regions where various charged subatomic particles get trapped by Earth’s magnetic fields, forming rings of plasma. We know that the particles that make up this plasma can have nasty effects on spacecraft electronics as well as human physiology, but there’s a lot that isn’t known about the belts. Two new satellites, scheduled to launch on August 23, will help change that. “Particles from the radiation belts can penetrate into spacecraft and disrupt electronics, short circuits or upset memory on computers. The particles are also dangerous to astronauts traveling through the region. We need models to help predict hazardous events in the belts and right now we are aren’t very good at that. RBSP will help solve that problem,” said David Sibeck, RBSP project scientist, Goddard Space Flight Center.

NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will put a pair of identical satellites into eccentric orbits that take them from as low as 375 miles (603 km) to as far out as 20,000 miles (32,186 km). During their orbits the satellites will pass through both the stable inner and more variable outer Van Allen belts, one trailing the other. Along the way they’ll investigate the many particles that make up the belts and identify what sort of activity occurs in isolated locations and across larger areas. The goal is to find out where the particles in the belts originate from — do they come from the solar wind? Or Earth’s own ionosphere? — as well as to find out what powers the belts’ variations in size and gives the particles their extreme speed and energy. Increased knowledge about Earth’s radiation belts will also help in the understanding of the plasma environment that pervades the entire Universe. Ultimately the information gathered by the RBSP mission will help in the design of future science and communications satellites as well as safer spacecraft for human explorers. The satellites are slated to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 4:08 a.m. EDT on August 23. -Universe Today

Published on 14 Mar 2012 by TheSpiritScience

Welcome to Channeling Revised! We've doubled the length of the video to get at what i REALLY wanted to get at in the original. Thing was, i wasn't able to translate the information in this way just yet, so i added a bit on later down the road to say more.

In this lesson, we talk about one of the methods to communicating with beings of consciousness both higher, and lower than ourselves. We also talk about animal communication and how you yourself can also do it.

I'd especially like to thank Joshua H Metz for doing some animation work! He might be helping out on future lessons, which is quite exciting :D

PLANETS ALIGN THIS WEEKEND: The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are lining up in the eastern sky this weekend--right in the middle of the Perseid meteor shower. It's a must-see event. A new ScienceCast video from NASA previews the display.

PERSEID METEOR SHOWER: The annual Perseid meteor shower is underway. International observers are reporting 15+ meteors per hour in pre-dawn skies as Earth enters a broad stream of debris from parent comet Swift-Tuttle. The shower has been building since late July. Over the past two weeks, NASA's All-Sky Meteor Network has recorded more than 57 Perseid fireballs. Their orbits are shown here, with Earth's position marked in red:

The show is about to get much better. Earth will pass through the heart of the debris stream on the nights of August 11th through 13th, boosting meteor rates beyond 100 per hour. Forecasters say the best time to look is probably during the dark hours before sunrise on Sunday, August 12th.
www.spaceweather.com

A key ingredient of Earth's strangest clouds does not come from Earth. New data from NASA's AIM spacecraft shows that "meteor smoke" is essential to the formation of noctilucent clouds. [full story]