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Is Earth Still Quarantined? Star Trek-like shield found above Earth

A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called “killer electrons,” which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.The barrier to the particle motion was discovered in the Van Allen …