A type of explosion in space called “magnetic reconnection” can happen much closer to Earth than previously thought.
That’s the conclusion of researchers who published their findings in the Jan. 13th issue of Nature Physics. The paper examines a powerful near-Earth reconnection event in Dec. 2015 that delivered 20 times the energy of a magnitude 7 earthquake to “the doorstep of Earth.”
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