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Space weather is dangerous. Solar winds, solar flares and ambient space radiation pose serious risks to astronauts and, somewhat more commonly, to the space equipment that astronauts and (increasingly) terrestrial humans rely on. Much of this weather remains poorly understood – a problem that a team of researchers led by University College London is helping to resolve. Using supercomputing resources from the DiRAC High Performance Computing facility, the researchers examined why gaseous outbursts from the Sun cool more slowly than expected.