How the Universe Works Season 2 Episode 4 - Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

Airdate: 2012-Aug-01

Episode summary:

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy, and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays halfway across the Universe. Could the earth be in the line of fire from the dangerous megaflares from the sun?

About How the Universe Works series:

How the Universe Works is the greatest story ever told, the creation of everything us. The programme investigates how the Universe came into existe...Show more >