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Today you'll learn about why the Earth's atmosphere extends beyond the moon,

whether you should listen to music while you work,

and whether you're muffled hearing after a concert means you damaged your ears.

But let's let us fast in curiosity.

A new study from Russia's Space Research Institute, the

SRI, says our atmosphere extends out to 630,000 kilometers into space.

And this could have big implications for astronomers, including how we find exoplanets with water.

As reported by universe today, this study centers on what's called the Geo Corona.

That's a huge cloud of hydrogen atoms that you can find where the Earth's atmosphere meets outer space.

The researchers looked at archival data from one of the instruments on the solar and

heliospheric observatory, or Soho.

Soho is a spacecraft launched in 1995 to study the Sun, and it's also discovered

more than 3,000 comets. Soho has a sensitive instrument on board that can trace the

hydrogen signature from the

geocorona to find its boundaries. See there's a type of light that

interacts with hydrogen atoms called Lyman Alpha Light. Hydrogen atoms can both

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