“We wanted to determine how often our Sun produces superflares; however, the duration of direct solar observations is relatively short,” Valeriy Vasilyev, from the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...

A star in the beautiful constellation of Corona Borealis will explode before September ... happen to stars about eight times the mass of our sun. Instead, T Coronae Borealis (also called T ...

Astronomers are keeping their eyes open for an exploding star that will be visible to the naked ... with only 10 known ones ...

Exploding stars are the wellspring of life ... which is something that has the mass of our sun, but a radius of only about six miles or so. That is a very compact object. Every centimeter cubed ...

When stars 150 times the size of our sun explode, they produce the brightest light sources in the universe and release as much energy in a few seconds as our Sun will produce over its entire 10 ...

"Superflares on stars similar to our sun occur once per century. This is 40 to 50 times more frequent than previously thought," study team member Valeriy Vasilyev, a scientist at the Max Planck ...

An exploding star that will be visible to the ... with only 10 known ones in our galaxy,” Dr Daniel Brown, associate professor in astronomy and science communication at Nottingham Trent ...