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Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Are There Other Warning Signs?

If we're lucky, then it is like a solar flare at the same time, pointing at us. But we don't always know that the solar flare is going to mean a coronal mass ejection. We are trying to build a model of the sun from the inside out. To do that, we are sending probes to get more information. The parker solar probe will come within ten solar radii of the centre of the sun and travel at life point o six % of the speed of light.

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