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The sun has played this game of Russian Roulette with the solar system for billions of years, sometimes shooting off several coronal mass ejections in a day. Most come nowhere near Earth. Most… 📸: Mark Pernice 4/14 https://t.co/nnXrv1zZ3E — PolitiTweet.org

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The resulting patches are known as sunspots. Sometimes, the knots untangle spontaneously, violently. The sunspot turns into the muzzle of a gun: Photons flare in every direction, and a slug of magnetized plasma fires like a bullet. 3/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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In 1859, amateur astronomer Richard Carrington was sketching sunspots. Suddenly, the spots erupted into a blinding beam of light, then returned to normal. As he tried to make sense of the aberration, a plasma bomb silently barreled toward Earth. 5/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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