The sun's rays may be stronger than scientists previously thought, new research suggests. Using a highly sophisticated telescope, a team of researchers recorded the highest-energy light ever detected from the sun, reaching up to nearly 10 trillion electron volts, according to a study published August 3 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
"The sun is more surprising than we knew," study co-author Mehr Un Nisa, a postdoctoral research associate at Michigan State University, said in a statement. "We thought we had this star figured out, but that's not the case."
