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A Sun edit in this economy?
Through Rayleigh scattering and Earth’s dense atmosphere, our G-type main-sequence star looks serene.
But NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows what’s actually happening: extreme differential rotation twisting magnetic field lines until they violently snap and reconnect, triggering M- and X-class solar flares and massive coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
93 million miles of vacuum and a planetary magnetosphere are the only reasons this looks pretty instead of apocalyptic.
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