Sentences with phrase «emit powerful flares»

TRAPPIST - 1 may be small and dim, but dwarf stars like it often emit powerful flares of radiation that could make water and life on its planets impossible without thick protective atmospheres.

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The Orion Nebula (left, in infrared light) contains hundreds of young stars that emit surprisingly powerful flares, according to a 13 - day exposure in x-rays (right).
Some believe they are explosions in distant galaxies, or flares caused by distant magnetars, highly magnetic pulsars that emit bursts of powerful radiation.
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