The Sun

Wikipedia's featured article today is about solar eclipses, and one of the diarists over at The Daily Kos, had a little write up about sun power today. It's interesting stuff.

I liked this bit;

Neutrinos are the phantoms of the particle physics universe, each has a fifty-fifty chance of making it through several lights years of solid lead without so much as slowing down. Because of that keen penetrating ability, right now, there are literally billions of neutrinos passing through you every second, some having been shot out of the center of the sun just a few minutes ago and others from the earliest stars to form at very edge of space and time.

Isn't that amazing when you think about it? Right at this very moment, there are particles literally storming your body that were smack dab in the middle of the sun a few minutes ago. That just boggles the imagination.