Every day, a newspaper, the television or the Internet offers predictions on precipitation and temperature conditions in your home town. Weather hounds might read forecasts for the opposite side of the country or even the planet. But we earthlings have a very egocentric view of the weather. There are weather events occurring just outside our atmosphere, hovering over our neighboring planets and even developing on the surface of the sun. You won’t find that in your five-day forecast. Yet distant weather can have a serious impact on humankind. The weather forecast for outer space...
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