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Solar flare '10 billion times more powerful' than Earth's Sun blasted out of Orion's sword
FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Feb 16, 2019 | LiveScience

Posted on 02/17/2019 7:57:53 AM PST by ETL

In November 2016, astronomers watched a young star some 1,500 light-years away from Earth belch out an explosion of plasma and radiation that was roughly 10 billion times more powerful than any flare ever seen leaving Earth's sun. This sudden stellar eruption may be the most luminous known flare ever released by a young star — and it could help scientists better understand the still-murky process of star formation.

"Observing flares around the youngest stars is new territory and it is giving us key insights into the physical conditions of these systems," Steve Mairs, an astronomer and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

Mairs and his colleagues detected the flare using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, perched atop Hawaii's dormant Mauna Kea volcano.

The flare originated from a binary star system — a solar system where two big stars orbit around one another — located in the Orion Nebula, some 1,500 light-years away, researchers reported in the new study, which was published Jan. 23 in The Astrophysical Journal.

This nebula is the closest active star-forming region to Earth and is frequently studied by astronomers interested in the births of stars and planets.

(You can actually see the nebula with the naked eye when you look for the Orion constellation; it's the middle "star" in Orion's sword, just south of his belt.)

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; electricuniverse; orion; orionnebula; plasma; radiation; science; sida; solarflare
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To: ETL

https://i.etsystatic.com/5519797/r/il/fe24e5/511165681/il_fullxfull.511165681_ng84.jpg
Galaxy Nebula Orions Belt Ring


21 posted on 02/17/2019 8:28:45 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: ETL

So, it’s his privates?


22 posted on 02/17/2019 8:34:11 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: sphinx
astronomy is western, phallo-centric

By the way -- some ancient cultures didn't regard that part of Orion as a sword or scabbard.

23 posted on 02/17/2019 8:35:58 AM PST by Buttons12
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To: ETL

“Massive cow fart detected in the constellation of Orion”


24 posted on 02/17/2019 8:41:08 AM PST by Lee Enfield (We win, they whine. Keep up the good work.)
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To: ETL
Stellar flares are meaningless.
25 posted on 02/17/2019 8:41:35 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
The Big Dipper begs to differ.

The Big Dipper is not a constellation - it's an asterism. And the constellation it is in is Ursa Major (the Big Bear) . . . which doesn't really look like its supposed portrayal. :-)
26 posted on 02/17/2019 8:55:41 AM PST by Phlyer
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To: sphinx

Good one, sphinx.
But, as is usual, the quota babies are really really trying to insert their low-IQ mini-heads into this area, since STEM is one of the few remaining areas with any respect. And, of course, progs must destroy that.


27 posted on 02/17/2019 8:56:18 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: ETL

So Orion’s junk is spewing flaming hot stuff.

Got it.

Thanks.

L


28 posted on 02/17/2019 9:05:21 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending it is.)
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To: ETL

Orion’s really built. The John Holmes of constellations.


29 posted on 02/17/2019 9:06:27 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: ETL

“I’ve seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.”


30 posted on 02/17/2019 9:09:30 AM PST by Flag_This (Liberals are locusts.)
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To: ETL
I shot this image of the Orion nebula from a former location under significantly light polluted skies. This is a rather easy object to obtain images of due to the fact it's very bright compared to many other deep space objects. This nebula is like a stellar nursery where new stars are being formed.


31 posted on 02/17/2019 9:12:42 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: central_va
I need to know this why?

Here we are now, entertain us

32 posted on 02/17/2019 9:13:08 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: central_va

I have some rolls stored downstairs in my prepper stuff, but i use that now to line a baking pan when I’m roasting garlic cloves or brussel sprouts.

If it happens, it happens.


33 posted on 02/17/2019 9:28:56 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
This guy is ready for the next flair!


34 posted on 02/17/2019 9:32:50 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: ETL

Don’t you just hate when that happens?


35 posted on 02/17/2019 9:39:58 AM PST by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: ETL

Wow. Any unusual activity in the Pleiades?

We may well be getting close to a visitation like none before.. 8-o


36 posted on 02/17/2019 9:56:50 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: central_va

LMAO! Is he ever!


37 posted on 02/17/2019 10:18:03 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ETL

Sure that’s his sword?


38 posted on 02/17/2019 10:24:29 AM PST by Rebelbase (If Trump walked on water the press headline would read, "TRUMP CAN'T SWIM".)
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To: SunkenCiv

*ping*


39 posted on 02/17/2019 10:27:52 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: dragnet2

“This nebula is like a stellar nursery where new stars are being formed.”

Until infanticide laws are translated throughout the galaxies.


40 posted on 02/17/2019 10:28:01 AM PST by Rebelbase (If Trump walked on water the press headline would read, "TRUMP CAN'T SWIM".)
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