Sun-Earth Day 2008: Space Weather Around the World
POLAR GATEWAYS PODCAST GALLERY
Brower's Café currently functions as a restaurant. After its original use as one of the International Polar Year buildings in 1881, it served as the trading post for the community of Barrow and was originally operated by Charles Brower. Photo Credit - Jay Friedlander
Space Weather Fact
The most powerful solar flare in the last 500 years occurred on September 2, 1859 and was sighted by two astronomers who happened to be looking at the sun at exactly the right time!
