Could A Solar Superflare Destroy The World? | Answers With Joe

Go to to get 30 days of CuriosityStream for free. It’s awesome. Do it. The sun is a solar flare machine, constantly spitting out waves of charged particles in all directions. Sometimes these hit Earth. Luckily we’re protected by a strong magnetic field that directs the particles to the poles, which we experience as the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis. But from time to time, the sun erupts in a massive superflare, also known as a CME or Coronal Mass Ejection. The