The Sun.  A bright fiery light in the sky to some, worshipped as a god by others, seen as a massive ball of hydrogen plasma 150 million kilometres away by scientists.  Once in a while, the Sun goes ahead and releases massive amounts of charged plasma particles toward the Earth.  The particles should eradicate humanity with horrible burns and render our planet lifeless, but luckily… they don’t.  Why? The Earth’s magnetic field protects us, funnelling the particles to the poles where they ionize gases in the atmosphere and become harmless.  The bonus for humanity, aside from not dying, is that we...