Illustration of the protecting bubble across the solar (yellow dot) and Earth (blue dot)
Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Between 2 million and three million years in the past, the photo voltaic system encountered turbulence on a galactic scale, colliding with a dense interstellar cloud that will have altered each the local weather and evolution on Earth.
Researchers have solely just lately been capable of map the trail of the solar by means of our galaxy, significantly in relation to the comparatively dense hydrogen clouds that additionally journey by means of the interstellar medium, the huge area between star methods.
Now, a workforce led by Merav Opher at Boston College…
