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Massive eruption of an icy volcanic comet detected in the solar system

Artist’s impression of a comet flying through space, dragged by twin streams of gas and dust. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in a new tab) A strange volcanic comet has violently erupted, spewing more than a million tons of gas, ice and the “potential building blocks of life” into the solar system. The volatile comet, known …

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Eruption of an object with a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than that of our Sun

So far, we’ve only had close calls of gamma-ray bursts so large, scientists have suggested, that if they occur in our solar neighborhood (less than 1,000 light-years away), they could potentially trigger mass extinctions on Earth. Some 440 million years ago, reports Nature, a nearby gamma-ray burst may have extinguished much of life on Earth. …

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