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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You are absolutely correct. And very funny.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. I've got the ping message on deck, and it's been there for a half hour or so, while I finished all my usual scuttlebutt. One thing left to add. :^) Probably this topic needs "carrington event" in the keywords.
Thanks ETL.
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“Oh My God, The Sun!”
“What is it?”
“A big fiery ball in the center of our solar system, but that’s not important right now.”
:)
Its coming right at us! ( jumps out of window).
So this happened 1500 years ago?
1502, really?
Old news!
:)
[And Brian Wilson was there to see it?]
He gets around....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREBD2og5iY
Somebody should write that down as a joke!
So Orions junk is spewing flaming hot stuff.
Got it.
Thanks.
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I think there may have been, long ago, an all-male tribe who saw the sword as Orions "junk". I guess one sees what they want to see.
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