New research suggests that our sun could be capable of shooting a superflare in our direction, and it might be relatively soon
Every now and then, stars on the other side of the galaxy appear to burn a little brighter. Astronomers suspect this happens when the distant suns let off massive"" that could be anywhere from hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than the solar flares recorded here on Earth in the modern era. But new research suggests that our sun could be capable of shooting a superflare in our direction, and it might be relatively soon.
Notsu and colleagues used Kepler Space Telescope data to check for evidence of superflares on other stars like our sun.in St. Louis on Monday.“Our study shows that superflares are rare events,” said Notsu. “But there is some possibility that we could experience such an event in the next 100 years or so.”is the Carrington Event of 1859, which is said to have caused Aurora Borealis as far south as Hawaii and destroyed telegraph infrastructure.
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