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'Extreme' solar radiation storm could hit Earth
BBC Science Focus
|January 2025
Sun-like stars may have tantrums far more frequently than we thought
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Every so often, the Sun throws such a furious tantrum that it hurls highly damaging radioactive atoms towards Earth. These so-called 'superflares' release more than one octillion (one followed by 27 zeroes) joules of energy in one go - that's like 16 trillion trillion atomic bombs detonating simultaneously.
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