1. Living with(in) a star Rebecca Centeno High Altitude Observatory

2. Credit: Daniel López (El cielo de Canarias)

3. NASA/GOES image taken from ISS http://www.gibsontreecare.com/ Credit: Daniel López (El cielo de Canarias)

4. 4 Sunspots Scheiner, 1625

5. 5 NST/BBSO Sunspots

6. Solar Cycle

7. SOHO/NASA Solar Cycle

8. Space Weather Image credit: NASA

9. Coronal Mass Ejections Solar Flares High Speed Streams Solar Energetic Particles Image credit: NASA Space Weather Sunspots are the main sources of the Sun's short-term variability

10. Filament eruption (August 31, 2012) SDO/AIA

11. Filament eruption (August 31, 2012) SDO/AIA

13. Heliospheric current sheet (source: Lempfi, NASA GSFC)

14. Heliospheric current sheet (source: Lempfi, NASA GSFC) Credit: Windows to the Universe BEBE

15. Heliospheric current sheet (source: Lempfi, NASA GSFC) Credit: Windows to the Universe BEBE B IMF

16. Forecasting Space Weather Solar dynamo (generation of the Sun’s magnetic field) 3D topology and evolution of sunspot fields. Schrijver & Title Muñoz-Jaramillo

17. Forecasting Space Weather Solar dynamo (generation of the Sun’s magnetic field) 3D topology and evolution of sunspot fields. What makes the magnetic fields of sunspots erupt?

18. Forecasting Space Weather How much energy is released in the eruption? How will it propagate outwards into the interplanetary medium? Determining the direction of B at the magnetopause. SunEarth C. de Forest (SwRI)

19. 1362 kW/m²

20. The Pale Blue Dot, 1990 (picture of the Earth taken by Voyager 1 as it was about to leave the Solar System) “All of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our home.” - Carl Sagan