http://q103albany.com Albany's #1 Rock Station Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://q103albany.com/solar-storms-may-give-us-a-light-show/ http://q103albany.com/solar-storms-may-give-us-a-light-show/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:15:17 +0000 Big Rich http://q103albany.com/?p=3011 The National Weather Service has been been keeping a watch on our Sun as it starts to move into a phase of increased activity called Solar Max. The sun will throw off more stellar matter and radiation which is what causes the Northern Lights when it hits the magnetic field that surrounds the Earth.

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