An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here's how

[Admin]

The sun protects our solar system's planets from the harsh environment of interstellar space; 2 million years ago, a dense cloud of matter could have curtailed this shielding.

An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here's how : Read more

 

[Atlan0001]

The Solar System goes East-West relative to a dusty cloudy East-West disk of Milky Way. BUT . . . the Solar System drifts North-South, South-North, through the dusty cloudy East-West disk of Milky Way!

 

[R_a_v_e_n]

A blast from classic SF: British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle’s 1957 novel The Black Cloud, in which an enormous cloud of gas enters the Solar System, blocking the Sun’s radiation from the Earth.

 

[Harry Costas]

It is common for our solar system to go through clouds of dust and Nebule and become part of the Solar System and even get absorbed by the Sun, giving more fuel to burn.

It is possible for an Ice Age to be formed.