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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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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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When a coronal mass ejection comes your way, what matters most is the bullet’s magnetic orientation. If it has the same polarity as Earth’s protective magnetic field, you’ve gotten lucky: The two will repel. But if the polarities oppose, they will smash together. 6/14 — PolitiTweet.org

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