Scary Facts About Solar Storms

More than 99 percent of the mass in our entire solar system exists just in the sun. It’s over a hundred times wider than Earth but more than 330,000 times as massive. And all that mass is hydrogen or helium. The entire thing has been burning for 4.6 billion years and it still has a good 5 billion years to go before all the fuel is burned off. All things being equal, it’s an amazing thing. There’s still a lot we don’t know about our star, but the things that we do now, especially about solar storms, are pretty terrifying. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Our other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/ Text version: https://ift.tt/3onaMAH Coming up: 10. Solar Flares Could Shut the World Down 9. Coronal Mass Ejections are Enormous 8. Solar Proton Events Dose Airplanes with Radiation 7. They’re Expensive 6. They Cause Auroras 5. One Shocked Telegraph Operators 4. They Electrify the Air 3. One Billion Hydrogen Bombs 2. They Are Insanely Fast 1. We Don’t Really Understand Them Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/35vGMKk https://ift.tt/3omTp3d https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu9QoWYg9Ck https://ift.tt/2yqeD6q https://ift.tt/2ttAEkV https://ift.tt/37yRp1G https://ift.tt/3onlwyW https://ift.tt/3kozluX https://ift.tt/31x8Lbh https://ift.tt/34lduik https://ift.tt/2FS4w2v https://ift.tt/3dZ33nS https://ift.tt/2IU1U5j https://ift.tt/2Hj4d1F https://ift.tt/2cNIkCv https://ift.tt/2kxBpFq https://ift.tt/3mhfEFS https://ift.tt/2t9B5xm https://ift.tt/3mdSwrJ https://ift.tt/31AOd1O https://ift.tt/3jpMe6o https://ift.tt/35uJhfQ https://ift.tt/3knqV6Q https://ift.tt/34ocSZq https://ift.tt/35GXUNB https://ift.tt/3ojAJB7 https://ift.tt/2KdvhOn https://ift.tt/2jjAJQu https://ift.tt/2FTCt2R https://ift.tt/3ouS2Q2 https://ift.tt/2J0EwTV https://ift.tt/35pFQHv https://ift.tt/3kohrrX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYoD1SDJkpY https://ift.tt/2ISbNR2 https://ift.tt/34nkf36 https://ift.tt/3ojGij0. https://ift.tt/2TgCKQx