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Star’s Colossal Superflare Was 20 Times More Powerful Than Those Seen on The Sun – ScienceAlert
A red dwarf in our Sun’s own back yard seems to have a bad case of indigestion, belching out a flare roughly 20 times more impressive than anything known to come out of our own star.
A red dwarf in our Sun’s own back yard seems to have a bad case of indigestion, belching out a flare roughly 20 times more impressive than anything known to come out of our own star.
The eruption was caught using a new telescope in Okayama, Japan, when astronomers trained its sights on the constellation Leo to study the kind of monster flares that could potentially wreak havoc should Earth ever stand in one’s way.
Over several nights in 2019, astronomers from Kyoto University and the National …
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