How the Universe Works: Season 2, Episode 4

2 - 4: Megaflares - Cosmic Firestorms

The Universe is a magnetic minefield. Spinning star systems crackle and explode, magnetic monsters rip worlds apart, star-quakes shoot beams of devastating energy, and galactic flamethrowers fire gamma-rays halfway across the Universe. Could the earth be in the line of fire from the dangerous megaflares from the sun?