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A Giant Sun Flare
Picture: NASA |

A Giant Sun Flare
The sun sets off a giant flare. Researchers studying tree rings, and the carbon-14 data left in them by cosmic rays, have created a record of sun activity going back 11,400 years.



Picture: NASA |

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