Hello All!   
      
   MICROBES FROM ANTARCTICA SET TO LAUNCH: Only a few hours from now,   
   Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus will launch   
   approximately 100 billion microbes from Antarctica to the stratosphere, more   
   than 110,000 ft above Earth's surface. The goal of the high-altitude balloon   
   experiment is to discover if terrestrial extremophiles can survive extreme   
   cold and high radiation at the edge of space. Stay tuned for updates.    
      
   MAGNETIC FILAMENTS ON THE SUN: With no sunspots actively flaring this weekend,   
   solar activity is low. Or is it? There's more to solar activity than sunspots   
   and flares. "I can't recall ever seeing as many magnetic filaments on the sun   
   as I have this month," points out amateur astronomer John W. O'Neal of   
   Amherst, Ohio. "This composite image is my tribute to the filament-ridden sun   
   of May 2015."    
       
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
    * Origin: NCS BBS - Houma, LoUiSiAna - (1:3828/7)