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''' O' GOD ALMIGHTY '''

'' O GOD ALMIGHTY '' : YOUR CREATIONS stumble in the dark. Please, bless mankind and grant mankind an understanding of your ways, love, peace, and sacrifices for their best submissions in building a better world. Ameen!

BEWARE THE SUPERFLARE : Our sun may be overdue for a huge radiation burst, astronomical data suggests.

OUR SUN is a violent place. Bursts of radiation snap off the solar surface with the strength of millions of volcanic eruptions. Hot plasma churns and spews, streaming particles that can harm astronauts and satellites in space and damage electrical systems on the ground. They can aso brighten up our skies with colourful lights.

But scientists have observed even bigger explosions with the power of a trillion hydrogen bombs from other stars that they call superflares. And while a superflare has yet to be observed from our own sun, astronomers wonder if it is capable of such an extremity, and if so, when one might occur.

A paper published in the journal Science last month offers more insight. Researchers determined that stars similar to the sun generate superflares roughly once a century, a rate much higher than expected.

The findings suggest we could be due for an extraordinarily powerful solar event sooner, rather than later.

'' We are in the space age,'' said Yuta Netsu, an astrophysicist at the University of Colorado Boulder and an author of the paper. '' So I think it's good to estimate low-probability but large-impact events,'' which can help space weather experts better quantify any potential risk posed to our planet, he said.

Solar flares occur when the sun's magnetic field twists and snaps, sending bursts of energy, often accompanied by an outflow of charged particles into space. If those particles interact with Earth's atmosphere, evidence of the events can end up nestled in tree rings or ice cores.

But particles aren't always ejected, nor are those events always directed toward Earth, making it difficult for scientists to draw conclusions about the sun's behavior from natural records.

A better method, according to Valeriy Vasilyev, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany who led the study, is to look at stars in the Milky Way that behave like our own sun.

Using data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope. Dr. Vasilyev's team searched the stars with temperatures, sizes and brightness patterns similar to those of the sun.

Out of 56, 450 sun-like stars, they found that about one in 20 produced a superflare.

The rate at which superflares occurred, approximately once every 100 years, is at least 30 times as great as in previous measurements - or higher :

'' We were really surprised by this result,'' Dr. Vasilyev said. '' It's really a huge difference.''

One reason that this rate might be so much higher than expected is because the team used a higher resolution image analysis, which allowed them to match observed flares to their host with great accuracy.

Scientists also have a better idea of what makes a star sun-like, particularly after a study in 2020 showed that our sun is not as active as once thought.

That means superflare rates computed in the past may have been derived from a sample of stars not truly representative of the family the sun is a part of.

The latest measurements appear to better align with how often the sun flares at lower energies.

Whether flares are big or small, Dr. Vasilyev said, '' seems like the same physics is responsible for this kind of explosion.''

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