How the Universe Works
Season 2, Episode 4: Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms
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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 half way across the Universe. Will we find Earth in the firing line?
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Volcanoes - The Furnaces of Life
Episode 2
Megastorms - The Winds of Creation
Episode 3
Exoplanets - Planets from Hell
Episode 4
Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms
Episode 5
Extreme Orbits - Clockwork and Creation
Episode 6
Comets - Frozen Wanderers
Episode 7
Asteroids - Worlds That Never Were
Episode 8
Birth of the Earth