space stories

It's easy to think of the sun as little more than that yellow thing up in the sky that looks kinda nice when it sets, but every once in a while, we get a reminder of its awesome star power that puts us in our place. The folks at NASA now have a high-powered satellite trained on the center of our solar system, and it's captured a solar tornado so big it could burn five Earths to ashes in a second.
We may not have to look too terribly far to find a habitable alien planet out there. It turns out, there could be a few billion just in our own neighborhood. According to a new study, there are likely a lot more rocky - but habitable - planets out there orbiting red stars within our Milky Way galaxy.

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