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Space weather risk managers watch the weather in space to try and work out what problems it could cause to human beings and technology on Earth.
MAGNETIC FIELD
EARTH
CHARGED PARTICLES
Weather in space is caused by the Sun and the energy it gives off.
This can cause power cuts to whole countries, take down communication systems and affect satellites in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Astrobiologists try to work out what aliens on other planets might look like. They travel to faraway places
on Earth, such as Iceland and the Amazon rainforest, and study plants and animals in extreme environments.
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