Bad Astronomy | Child stars blast extremely powerful fireworks very often. A new study finds

The stars are scary In addition to releasing a huge amount of energy all the time as if it was indispensable Sometimes they even catch fire. Blasting out massive amounts of matter and energy at a level that could only be described as “Dirty of underwear” “

Fireworks are magnetic events. As I explained earlier:

[T]The Sun has a very complex magnetic field. Inside the Sun are enormous packs of hot plasma. (Gas that remove electrons) that rise from the depths. These globules have their own internal magnetic fields. and when they rise to the surface large magnetic field lines (similar to what you see in the magnetic bar diagram) will penetrate the surface. These loops carry a huge amount of energy with you. and usually bring that energy up in a loop and back down to the sun.

But if these bunches of loops are intertwined They can interact and connect with each other. by releasing energy at the same time The resulting explosion narrowed our entire nuclear arsenal. And it̵

Big events can cause power surges. power outages around the world Damage to electronics, satellites, etc., it’s interesting to study these things. But it is of great importance to our modern civilization. That’s not hyperbole.

The power of these events comes from the movement of gases in the sun. We know that stars spin faster when they are younger. and has a much greater magnetic field. So the stars are very young. Strong flare should be blown. and quite often

and oh they do to study these phenomena Astronomers have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to look at star-forming nebulae. in which stars are still actively being born The fiery star radiates a large amount of X-rays. So these are great places to look for a lot of stellar, tantrum babes at the same time. Of the more than 24,000 young stars (less than 5 million years old) that emit X-rays, they found that 1,086 have had particularly large flash events.

Now, “especially big,” I want you to appreciate what I mean. In the year 774 the Earth was struck by a huge flare from the Sun. It altered the chemistry of our atmosphere and left its mark on us 1200 years later..

so. minimal So was the powerful flame that the moon could see. The most powerful weapon known as Mega Flare was 100,000 times stronger.

Yes, take a moment to absorb that one hundred. thousand. times

Yes. Dirty underwear. The powerful flames from the sun today will be terrible. Terrible.

But can the sun do that? Flame 774 is the most powerful event in the past 10,000 years that hit the Earth. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that it will produce anything of this level. (It can also show a powerful flare. But not like this.) Remember that the stars in question are still very young. So it can create stronger storms. The sun is old and tired. and unable to produce an explosion that is ridiculously powerful.

That’s a good thing. Still, these young stars are pouring out in these events. How does this affect their environment? to any planet that orbit around them and what is their specific cause?

Astronomers have found an interesting trend in the star Mecca: it doesn’t seem to matter if there are disks of planetary bodies around them. They all flare up at the same energy level and often. There is an idea that perhaps the magnetic fields of young stars can match these discs. to increase their power But that doesn’t seem to be the case. That means that the star produces all these explosions on its own. Just as the sun does on a much smaller scale.

They saw stars from small red dwarfs. to blue-white creatures as large as 18 times the mass of the Sun All of them experienced these flames. They also found that very young stars with the same mass as the Sun flare about 1.7 times a year, which is chilling. surrounding planets A star like it will be cooked by a massive explosion every 7 months or so If this planet is near It will destroy its atmosphere. Many of the exoplanets detected orbiting near their stars are much more massive than Earth. But there seems to be a small amount of the atmosphere. These may have started as a Neptune-like world with a dense atmosphere. But their energetic stars blew sand away.

That is planetary destruction on an unimaginable scale. But it might not be all bad. For stars that have not yet begun to form planets These flames can draw excess gas from the surrounding plates. which makes it difficult to form stone seeds. when the gas is thinned These debris will aggregate, grow larger, and eventually form planets. This means that the flames could actually speed up the planet-building process.

not too clear But the Sun was once young. At 4.6 billion years of age, these were beyond the capabilities of the Sun now. But in the old days it spun very quickly. strong magnetic field And almost every year or so these fires are extinguished. This must have had an effect on the nascent planets of the current solar system. Although the details are unclear.

However, by studying these other stars, we can learn what this dire environment will be for our planet. including the star you are sitting on Solar flares are much smaller now. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have energy. So everything we can do to learn about them is a pretty good idea.