Superflares occur on sun-like stars roughly once per century
A study analyzing 56 450 Sun-like stars has found that superflares which are immense bursts of electromagnetic radiation, occur roughly once every 100 years.
Seimei telescope detects superflare 20 times larger than those emitted by our own sun
Astronomers from Kyoto University's Graduate School of Science and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have succeeded in detecting 12 stellar flare phenomena on a red dwarf 16 light-years away using the 3.8 meter Seimei telescope. This new instrument…
