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A 12,000-mile-deep 'canyon of fire' has opened on the sun, spitting intense solar wind toward Earth


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50 years ago, Alan Shepard shanked the first golf shot on the Moon into a crater, but estimated his second traveled about 600 feet (recent research suggests it was closer to 120 feet). Meanwhile, a regular swing (on Earth) by an average PGA Tour pro would send a lunar tee shot about 4,170 feet.