The Blue Comet
They told us the sun was sick. Not dying—not yet—but sick, the way a man gets pneumonia and you know it's only a matter of time before his lungs fill with fluid and he drowns on dry land. Helium flash. That's what the astronomers called it. A sudden ignition of helium in the sun's core that would expand outward like a bomb and vaporize every planet in the solar system. We had maybe a thousand...
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