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SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)
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Solar Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Sun’s Detected By AstronomersThe Hawaii-based James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) has discovered a stellar flare 10 billion times more powerful than the Sun's solar flares, a history-making discovery that could unlock decades-old questions about the origin of our own Sun and planets, giving insight into how these celestial bodies were born. The flare is thought to be caused by a disruption in an intense magnetic field actively funneling material onto a young, growing star as it gains mass from its surroundings. The event occurred in one of the nearest star-forming regions to the Earth, the Orion Nebula.The flare was observed on a very young star called JW 566, about 1,269 light-years away in the Orion Nebula. Read more at: [ link to phys.org (secure)] [ link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
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