Solar flare '10 billion times more powerful' than Earth's Sun blasted out of Orion's sword

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Feb 16, 2019 | LiveScience

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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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Galaxy Nebula Orions Belt Ring

[ConservativeMind]

So, it’s his privates?

[Buttons12]

astronomy is western, phallo-centric

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

[Lee Enfield]

“Massive cow fart detected in the constellation of Orion”

[outofsalt]

Stellar flares are meaningless.

[Phlyer]

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. :-)

[Da Coyote]

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.

[Lurker]

So Orion’s junk is spewing flaming hot stuff.

Got it.

Thanks.

L

[central_va]

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

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

[dragnet2]

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.

[windsorknot]

I need to know this why?

Here we are now, entertain us

[Carriage Hill]

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.

[central_va]

This guy is ready for the next flair!

[EnglishOnly]

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

[NormsRevenge]

Wow. Any unusual activity in the Pleiades?

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

[Carriage Hill]

LMAO! Is he ever!

[Rebelbase]

Sure that’s his sword?

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Rebelbase]

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

Until infanticide laws are translated throughout the galaxies.