Sound Stories. Sound Voices.
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
You are on the KUOW archive site. Click here to go to our current site.

Will A Plasma Cloud Be The End Of Civilization?

Flickr Photo/NASA Goddard Photo (CC-BY-NC-ND)
A close-up of a filament on the sun's surface.

Ross Reynolds talks with astrophysics professor Adam Frank about what a plasma cloud is, the chances of one hitting Earth and what that means for our civilization. Spoiler: All the answers are scary.