Scientists monitor a terrifying thing in space, and warn of a devastating solar storm

A recent study revealed that a devastating solar storm could send humanity back to the dark ages, and this phenomenon was first observed in a star system only 100 light-years away.

Astronomers described the glow that occurred in the star EK Draconis as "worrying", warning that a similar event could strike the Earth, and would lead to the crash of power grids serving entire cities, causing widespread power outages and hitting phone networks, according to a report. The Mirror newspaper.

The storm that scientists fear is made of extremely hot particles, or plasma, that flows through space at millions of miles per hour. "The storm could have a serious impact on Earth and human society," said study co-author Dr. Yuta Notsu from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Experts fear a catastrophic solar storm will hit us by the end of the century, and study leader Kosuke Namikata of the National Astronomical Observatory in Japan said that the storm or flare released by the star EK Draconis could be just as powerful as a similar solar storm would hit Earth.

The researchers used ground and space telescopes to observe the star EK Draconis, which released a mass of scorching plasma estimated at billions of kilograms, ten times more than the previous record from a sun-like star, and experts considered that this may be a warning of the dangerous weather in space.

The study, published in Nature Astronomy, states that the sun is capable of causing such violent phenomena, but on the bright side, coronal ejected masses are likely to be much rarer in older stars like our sun.

And two years ago, researchers at the US Geological Survey predicted that a solar storm would hit the Earth at any moment without guaranteeing that we would discover it coming, according to "Mirror".

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