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Earth's Safe Zone Became Hot Zone During Legendary Solar Storm - 15 December

The beauty of science is that nothing is for certain. There are times when scientists think they have something figured out and then nature throws them for a loop. Just such an event happened last fall when the Sun erupted in some massive, record-shattering explosions that hurled billion of tons of electrified gas toward Earth.

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An Unusual Light Show - 10 November

Millions of people around the world were treated to a brilliant display of aurora lights this week. The Sun produced at least five major "halo" coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over the period of Nov. 4-8, an unusually fast pace for solar activity.

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