Young sun’s super solar flares helped set early Earth up for life
Particle blasts could have created molecules to warm planet, seed DNA
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SUPERFLARE Gusts of solar wind from the young sun produced life-supporting molecules, researchers propose. The solar flares probably compressed Earth’s magnetic field (blue lines) and sent particles raining into the atmosphere, as shown in this illustration.
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