Huge glow in space raises concerns of scientists
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Astronomers observing a distant star have detected a massive coronal mass ejection 10 times greater than the strongest mass ever recorded, raising fears that a massive glow could also erupt from our sun.
According to what Russia Today quoted from a study conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder, experts confirmed that such a flare is theoretically possible, but it is likely that it will occur every several thousand years, and what it wanted to discover is whether it can lead to the injection of a massive coronal mass. To the same extent, which occurs immediately after a star leaves a sudden, bright explosion of radiation in the depths of space.
The researchers followed the star EK Draconis, which is 111 light-years away, and its age is only 100 million years, and it is relatively young in the cosmic sense, while our sun is 4.6 billion years old. times the strongest coronal mass ejection ever recorded from a Sun-like star.
Scientists analyzed the star for 32 nights using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and Kyoto University's SEIMEI Telescope.
About 30 minutes after the massive flare erupted, the researchers noticed what appeared to be a coronal mass ejection flying away from the star's surface, and they were only able to catch the first step in that ejection's life, which is called the "fuse eruption" stage, but nonetheless it was like a "monster" It moves at a top speed of about a million miles per hour.
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