
Cycles, eruptions and sunspots – exploring our Sun 10/07 21:34 CET
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It is a ball of burning gas one million kilometres wide but the Sun is one of the reasons we are here. Clouds of electrically-charged particles routinely shoot from the Sun, disrupting communications systems on Earth. But does solar activity also play a part in climate change?
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