As the Sun approaches the climax of its 11-year cycle in 2000 and 2001, you'll be hearing lots more about how our star affects our planet. Click on any of the images below to link to some great resources providing current information.

Without the Sun there would be no photosynthesis, no green plants no oxygen and no humans...

Storms on the Sun, called CMEs, eject matter and energy towards Earth...

Here at Earth, the solar wind impacts the Earth's magnetosphere triggering geomagnetic storms...

The most beautiful evidence of the Sun-Earth Connection are the auroras--

the northern and southern lights...

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