A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Caused Pleistocene Ice Ages

[Oxytropidoceras]

A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once

Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages.

Astronomers suggest this cold, dense cloud 

compressed our sun’s protective field between 

two and three million years ago, leaving the 

Earth exposed to cosmic material

Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, June 14, 2024

 

The Solar System May Have Passed through

Dense Interstellar Cloud 2 Million Years Ago,

Altering Earth’s Climate, Boston University, June 14, 2024

 

The open access paper is:

 

Opher, M., Loeb, A. and Peek, J.E.G., 2024. 

A possible direct exposure of the Earth to the

cold dense interstellar medium 2–3 Myr ago.

Nature Astronomy, pp.1-8.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

Edited June 18 by Oxytropidoceras
corrected typo