This new analysis implied that the star actually released a 1 - minute - long flare, a thousand times brighter than the star's usual shine — perhaps 10 times brighter than
the most powerful solar flares from our own sun on record, said Weinberger.
Not exact matches
At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class
solar flare — the
most powerful sun - storm category — blasted from a large sunspot on the sun's surface.
Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two
powerful solar flares — the second was the
most powerful in more than a decade.
These particles are the by - products of
solar flares, the
most powerful explosions anywhere in the
solar system.
One of STEREO's
most important tasks will be tracking
solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which pack the force of a billion - megaton nuclear bomb and are the
most powerful explosions in the
solar system.
It was the
most powerful since an enormous X17
flare burst forth in 2005, but even that doesn't stack up against the
most intense
solar flare ever seen.