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Computer modelling supports the idea that nascent stars brighten dramatically during growth spurts, which could explain an astrophysical mystery Space 2 December 2021 By Will Gater Newborn stars appear as pink and red specks in the centre of this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope NASA/JPL-Caltech/P.S. Teixeira (Center for Astrophysics) Powerful outbursts of energy from … Read more
Astronomers may have, for the first time, detected a sunlike star erupting with a giant outburst 10 times larger than anything similar ever seen from our sun, a new study finds. The new results may shed light on the effects such powerful outbursts may have had on the early Earth when life was born, and … Read more
A coronal mass ejection from the star EK Draconis was 10 times larger than any we have seen on our own sun Space 9 December 2021 By Chen Ly A coronal mass ejection on the sun photographed by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory NASA Goddard Astronomers have seen a huge cloud of plasma erupting from the … Read more