# The Faint Young Star Paradox- Solar Storms May Have Been Key to Life on Earth 3qohnUC JaQ

Our sun's adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been just the key to seeding life as we know it on Earth.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/Genna Duberstein

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Goddard
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Faint_Young_Star_Paradox-_Solar_Storms_May_Have_Been_Key_to_Life_on_Earth_3qohnUC_JaQ.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Goddard
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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