This Week in Space 63

The sun brings light and heat to Earth, but it can also blast our planet with stormy weather, flares, and massive coronal mass ejections that can impact our power grids, satellites, and even endanger astronauts in space and, eventually, back on the moon. And it's heating up as the sun approaches Solar Maximum of its latest Solar Cycle 25. NASA solar astrophysicist Dr. C. Alex Young of the Helioscience Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland joins us to dish on the latest from the sun and what it means for us on Earth.        

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Links

• The Sun Today with C. Alex Young
• The sun explained from NASA Science
• Virgin Galactic's reaches space with Unity 25
• Alien signal' beamed to Earth from Mars ... for SCIENCE
• This new supernova, the brightest in years, could help astronomers forecast future star explosions