To: Pez149
Something on our sun close to this would be catastrophic.
IIRC, red dwarfs are thought to flare because they are not dense enough to contain their convection in layers, generating intense magnetic fields which, when the fields shift, let off Hellish amounts of energy as a flare. Heavier stars like our sun keep convection in layers, and the magnetic fields of the convection are correspondingly smaller, with shifts in the fields producing smaller flares.
Disclaimer, I am not an astrophysicist, nor do I play one on TV.
16 posted on
05/02/2021 2:27:44 PM PDT by
Jagermonster
("God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16, NKJV.)
To: Jagermonster
We were both thinking the same thing.
I am not an astrophysicist either, but have done work involving physics.
18 posted on
05/02/2021 2:39:03 PM PDT by
Fred Hayek
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