We Probably Don’t Need To Worry About A Solar Superflare - Newsy

Transcript: Superflares: They’re just what they sound like. Solar flares are releases of magnetic energy from the sun’s atmosphere. Sometimes — but not always — they bombard Earth with high-energy plasma. Superflares are the same principle, just bigger. Researchers started cataloguing them with the Kepler space telescope a few years ago. They’re easy to spot, even on distant stars, since they crank out about 10,000 times more energy than normal flares. And in a new study published in Nature, researchers s