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Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

Earth may be made up of rocks blasted by gusts of solar wind

6 December 2018

The area in our solar system within Mercury’s orbit is empty, which may be because solar winds threw all the rocks farther out, where they helped form planets
Solar flare

A tech-destroying solar flare could hit Earth within 100 years

16 October 2017

If the sun spews “superflares” as often as other stars, one could take down power systems, damage the ozone layer and destroy satellites in the next century

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