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Blogs > loveisamyth > loveisamyth, stars are forever


loveisamyth 68M
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5/25/2016 5:24 am

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SPACE WEATHER & THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

A new study published this week in Nature Geoscience suggests that extreme space weather could have played a key role in the origin of life. According to Vladimir Airapetian of the Goddard Space Flight Center, intense solar flares ~4 billion years ago altered the chemistry of Earth's upper atmosphere, creating greenhouse gases to keep the planet warm as well as organic molecules important to early life forms. A readable summary of the research has been written by Maddie Stone of Gizmodo.



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