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Author Index C	Arthur C Clarke
Title Index S	Sunstorm
	Co-Author Stephen Baxter

Year	2005
Publisher	Gollancz
ISBN	0575075317

Synopsis	A Time Odyssey: Book Two 2037: A restless sun The sun flares. Thousands die. Suddenly our high-technology civilisation seems terribly vulnerable. We recover. We rebuild. But this is just the precursor. He is a maverick, not yet 25. But his calculations are irrefutable, his predictions solid. It is going to happen again. In April 2042, in just five years, the sun will flare once more. But this time the sun will hurl out in one day the energy it would normally spend in a year. This time nothing on Earth will survive. As plans are drawn up to save mankind, as all Earth's resources are mobilised for one unimaginable engineering effort, one question nags: Why now?

Review	An epic account of our epochal struggle to survive - and a revelation of our place in a dangerous universe.

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	Credit: NASA
Stellar Quakes In December 2004, a neutron star flared up so brightly, it temporarily blinded all the x-ray satellites in space, and lit up the Earth's upper atmosphere. This tremendous blast of energy was from a giant flare created by the neutron star's twisting magnetic field. Objects like this are called magnetars, and they produce magnetic fields trillions of time more powerful than those here on Earth. These fields are so strong they can actually buckle the surface of the neutron star causing these powerful star quakes.
NASA Image of the day archive

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