Something Unknown Seems to Blast Earth With Radiation Every Thousand Years or So

'There's a kind of extreme astrophysical phenomenon that we don't understand and it actually could be a threat to us.'

, examined tree rings for spikes of carbon 14, a radioactive isotope of carbon whose increased presence represents spikes in radiation levels on Earth. The radiation upticks, in turn, are caused by mysterious astrophysical events called "Miyake events," so named afterAccording to Pope, there have been six known Miyake events in the past 10,000 years, with the latest having occurred in 993 CE.

In an age heavily reliant on electronics and the internet, a Carrington-like event could be monumentally more devastating today. But ominously, whatever caused the Miyake events would have been up to 100 times more powerful than even the Carrington.Pope thinks it could be an unholy barrage of solar flares bursting in quick succession.

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