The Sun has a new way to kill us

Exposing the Big Game's avatarThe Extinction Chronicles

Beware nasty space weather.

coronal mass ejection
Credit: NASA

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • The Sun has been waiting to kill us for a long time. In our high-tech era, it has a whole new tool it can use to strike us.
  • When conditions are right, coronal mass ejections (CMEs),magnetic loops drenched in hot plasma, can be fired toward Earth. This has happened before, and we refer to them now as Carrington Events.
  • If a Carrington Event happened today, most experts agree it would fry our power, GPS, and communication systems, leaving us cold, in the dark, and alone.

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