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Brandon Specktor

Gargantuan 'superflare' from distant star may have launched one of the strongest solar storms ever seen

A distant red star erupting with a fiery flare that extends far off the star's surface (Image credit: NAOJ)

Scientists scoping out a star system in the constellation Orion have witnessed one of the most gargantuan and powerful stellar flares ever seen.

Dubbed a "superflare," the enormous blast of stellar radiation is 10 times more massive than anything ever witnessed erupting from the sun, according to new research published in The Astrophysical Journal. 

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