It was once thought that only young and active stars produced these explosive events, but according to a new study, our 4.6-billion-year-old sun also has the capacity.
Superflares are explosive galactic events in which stars emit extremely powerful and sudden bursts of energy, thousands of times stronger than normal solar flares.
They found that while superflares occur much more frequently in young stars—about every week or so—older stars do produce them, albeit, on average, every few thousand years. If the sun produced a superflare today, the star would emit vast amounts of high energy radiation which could wreak havoc with electronics across our planet.
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