"This is a space object and we have heard in other similar incidents that there have been effects of radiation affecting even future generations and there is that fear in this community."

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer says alcohol is a Group 1 carcinogen, putting it in the company of tobacco, asbestos and ultraviolet radiation.

Dabrowski had delayed further treatment to be able to play at the All England Club and represent her nation in the Paris Olympics, then underwent radiation therapy before the US Open in late August.

The probe plunged into our star's outer atmosphere on Christmas Eve, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation in a quest to better our understanding of how the Sun works.

Throughout the decades, numerous observations of how dust, gas, and ripples in the cosmic microwave background, or the leftover radiation from the primordial plasma of the universe, moved indicated that dark matter exists.