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Did a supernova cause the Devonian mass extinction event? – Universe Today

359 million years ago the Earth suffered one of its worst extinction events, and a team of researchers at the University of Illinois think that it might be caused by a series of supernova explosions no more than 35 light years away. Every once in a while some…

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359 million years ago the Earth suffered one of its worst extinction events, and a team of researchers at the University of Illinois think that it might be caused by a series of supernova explosions no more than 35 light years away.
Every once in a while something disastrous happens to life on Earth. The biggest episodes we call extinction events. The latest big one happened about 65 million years ago, and was a very rough time for dinosaurs but turned out pretty awesome for the mammals. But th…

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