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“Green Bananas” – New Research Shows Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction on Earth Imagine reading by the light of an exploded star, brighter than a full moon – it might be fun to think about, but this scene is the prelude to a disaster when the radiation devastates life as we know it. Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extincti