Earth’s Oldest Trees Reveal History’s Strongest Solar Storms
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Earth’s oldest trees reveal history’s strongest solar storms
Although humanity continuously reckons with many problems here on Earth — war, political turmoil, epidemics and pandemics, all while the energy, climate, and water crises intensify — it’s important to remember just how relentless the Universe can be. While earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes and other natural disasters haven’t exactly ceased in the meantime, there’s a completely different looming threat for which we’re completely unpre…
For AstroGeo we regularly research a whole story. Only if you support us financially will the podcast remain free of charge. Thank you! Sometime at the beginning of the 2010s the doctoral student Fusa Miyake stands for the first time before a very old tree disc. It is a disc from the trunk of a Japanese cedar, which had grown for 2000 years on the island of Yakushima in southern Japan. The task of the young physicist: to examine the individual g…
Ancient Trees Reveal a Terrifying History of Monster Solar Storms
Some of the world’s oldest trees are revealing a surprising warning about the sun: our star is capable of producing solar storms far more powerful than anything humans have experienced in modern times. The discovery began in 2012, when Japanese researcher Fusa Miyake studied ancient cedar tree rings from Yakushima Island. Trees add a new […] The post Ancient Trees Reveal a Terrifying History of Monster Solar Storms appeared first on Knowridge Sc…
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