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Scientists: a storm “stronger than anything we’ve seen” threatens humanity… but our sun is “innocent”

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A team of scientists has expressed their deep concern because they have detected a huge burst of energy and particle emission coming from a distant sun-like star, considered the most powerful of all “anything scientists have seen” previously in our solar system.
Scientists have discovered a huge burst of energy and charged particles that resulted from a huge plasma explosion that occurred in a star named “EK Draconis” located tens of light years from Earth.
The sun is “innocent” this time… a great storm from a young star
A new study, the results of which were published a few days ago in the scientific journal Nature Astronomy, revealed a stellar phenomenon called coronal mass emission, which is also known as a solar storm, but this time it is not coming from our sun, but rather from a distant star with a very huge energy.

Astrophysicist Yuta Notsu of the University of Colorado, one of the researchers involved in the new study, explained that the sun regularly releases this type of explosion, and it consists of huge clouds of very hot particles or plasma, which can rush through space at speeds up to to millions of miles per hour.
Scientific journals warn: similar to the sun threatens life on Earth
And the world noted that there is some “bad news”, as he put it, because the new storm coming from this star may make our Earth “dead” because it may throw satellites out of their orbits and cause the power grids that serve the cities of the earth to stop, according to the article published in the magazine “scitechdaily.” Scientific.
“CME could have a serious impact on Earth and human society…This type of eruption could, in theory, also occur on our Sun. This observation may help us better understand how similar events affect Earth and even Mars over billions of years.” .

In this research, scientists used telescopes scattered on the planet and others in space in order to monitor the distant solar system “EK Draconis”, which appeared as a new version of the sun, or as a newborn sun.
Notso explained that this coronal mass ejection usually comes immediately after a sudden explosion or glow of a star that may extend far into space.

Recent research has suggested that these eruptions or flows are relatively quiet in the sun, unlike other stars that emit rays that are tens or even hundreds of times stronger than our sun, according to the scientist.

Stars around our galaxy suffer frequent flares
The study published by scientists showed that young, sun-like stars around the galaxy “appear to experience frequent superflares, like our own solar flares but tens or even hundreds of times stronger”, but the scientists wondered whether these flares might affect our planet.
In order to reach results, the researchers studied the star “EK Draconis” at length, where scientists noticed that the size of this star is similar to the size of our sun, but it is only 100 million years old, meaning that it is young in the cosmic sense of the word. “This is what our sun looked like 4.5 billion years ago,” Notsu said.

“The team’s results indicate that the Sun may also be able to produce such violent extremes of emission, but there is no need to worry, as these CMEs from these planets are rare to occur around the Sun in the coming years.”
“The atmosphere of Mars nowadays is very thin compared to that of Earth… In the past, we thought that the atmosphere of Mars is much thicker. Coronal mass ejections may help us understand what happened to the planet over the past billions of years,” Notsu said.

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