Earthfiles: Confusing Sun - Will Solar Cycle 24 Be Intense?

This is a short excerpt from a full-length podcast available as a free download at www.Earthfiles.com. Our sun not only hums in a rhythmic beat, which you can hear in this Earthfiles podcast, it is confusing solar physicists. Coming up is Solar Maximum 24, reaching its peak between 2010 to 2012. Will there be a lot of X-flares that can hurt astronauts, fry satellites and damage electrical power stations? The sun is sending contradictory signals. But NASA has weighed in on the space weather debate with the prediction this maximum could be the strongest in 400 years since record keeping began. Visit Earthfiles.com for the latest updates in earth and astronomical mysteries, and real X-Files, in-depth reports that go beyond the 6 o'clock news, with Emmy award-winning reporter and editor Linda Moulton Howe.