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California-sized cracks in our planet’s magnetic field can remain open for hours, allowing the solar wind to gush through and power stormy space weather–this according to new observations from Earth-orbiting satellites. The arrival of rows and rows of blocky animated invaders from space in 1978 captured the public’s imagination.