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A Mission to Touch the Sun in Jeopardy

We are living with an active star we hardly understand and have barely explored. More than 1.3 million Earths could fit in the same volume as our sun, the source of our worldโ€™s energy โ€” with fossil fuels, wind and hydro power simply being converted into forms of solar energy. A single solar flare lasting only a few minutes generates a hundred-thousand times more energy than all of the worldโ€™s power plants combined over the course of a year.

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