A moment in the sun for the Sun. ☀️ Fierce storms on the Sun can impact life and technology on Earth. Space weather scientists track the Sun's activity to help understand and predict potentially violent events. A recent increase in the number of flares suggests solar activity could reach its maximum this year. Solar flares and eruptions can fling radiation and charged particles towards Earth. Regional power blackouts could occur, satellites could sustain heavy damage, and oil pipelines could exp

8.9K views · 318 reactions | What are we working on at the moment? Blue skies research - asking questions with no concrete answer in mind. Here are six of the blue skies we're sailing towards: Synthetic Biology, Deep Earth Imaging, Digiscape, Environomics, Active Integrated Matter, Probing Biosystems. Full blog: https://blog.csiro.au/the-big-six-our-innovation-hacks-for-the-future/ | CSIRO | Facebook