Solar 'superflares' millions of times stronger than anything today may have sparked life on earth

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Intense solar storms may have delivered Earth its earliest building blocks of life, new research suggests.

Life on Earth could have been sparked by enormous superflares from a hyperactive young sun, a new study suggests.

Related: Key building block for life discovered on distant asteroid Ryugu — and it could explain how life on Earth began "Most investigators ignore galactic cosmic rays because they require specialized equipment, like particle accelerators," lead study author Kensei Kobayashi , a professor of chemistry at Yokohama National University in Japan, said in a statement ."I was fortunate enough to have access to several of them near our facilities."

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