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Could a solar flare wipe out humanity?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What's the Difference Between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Objections?

Solar flares are intense outbursts of radiation from the sun. These can be pretty powerful, right, daniel? They're like nnomegaton level bursts of energy. It's an enormous amount of energy. Some of these have the equivalent of like, ten billion megaton bombs. And you now, the sun doesn't even notice. Frit is like te tiny, tiny tiniest fraction of the sun has no impact on the mass of the sun,. but it's significant compared to the earth.

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