{"id":201519,"date":"2024-12-13T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/violent-superflares-explode-from-sun-like-stars-every-100-years"},"modified":"2024-12-13T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:17:27","slug":"violent-superflares-explode-from-sun-like-stars-every-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/violent-superflares-explode-from-sun-like-stars-every-100-years","title":{"rendered":"Violent superflares explode from sun-like stars every 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/violent-superflares-explode-from-sun-like-stars-every-100-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything about this discovery was surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s research was published on Thursday (Dec. 12) in the journal <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adl5441\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.adl5441\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Science.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, the sun has been particularly turbulent, blasting Earth with usually strong solar storms and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/aurora-colors-explained\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/aurora-colors-explained\">ramping up auroral displays<\/a> as a reminder of how violent our star can be. While scientists have been able to study this behavior and collect invaluable data, this represents the sun\u2019s behavior over a tiny fraction of its <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/58-the-sun-formation-facts-and-characteristics.html\">4.6 billion-year life<\/a> so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything about this discovery was surprising.\u201d The team\u2019s research was published on Thursday (Dec. 12) in the journal Science. This year, the sun has been particularly turbulent, blasting Earth with usually strong solar storms and ramping up auroral displays as a reminder of how violent our star can be. While scientists have been able to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}