Stars that are just like our Sun have flares more than a million times more energetic than the biggest flare ever seen on the Sun. The Kepler satellite has allowed these superflares to be studied in detail for the first time.
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| The sun released a M1.7 class flare associated with a prominence eruption on April, 16, 2012. The flares produced by our Sun are from 10 to 10 million times less powerful than the superflares unleashed by other solar-type stars, according to a recent paper published on Nature. Credit: NASA/SDO/AIA |
