Sun-Like Stars Unleash Violent Superflares Every 100 Years – Could Earth Be at Risk?

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High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than scientists had thought.

Solar flares, eruptions of high-energy radiation, can have serious effects on Earth, with the potential to impact communication systems and power infrastructure.

However, solar flares are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of outbursts of energy that stars can emit. A more extreme phenomenon is the "superflare," an explosion that can be tens of thousands of times more powerful than the "typical" solar flare.

One of the most violent solar storms on record was the Carrington event of 1859. During this storm, telegraph networks across Europe and North America collapsed. Worryingly, the Carrington event — as extreme as it was — released just 1% of the energy that could be emitted during a superflare.

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