Planets Can Trigger Damaging Flares

Planets Can Trigger Damaging Flares
By Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://ift.tt/la9Bvyd)

We all know what it's like when Earth is on the receiving end of a solar flare. Things get spicy in the upper atmosphere, and the outbursts have the potential to disrupt technology here at home. Catastrophic flares of radiation devastate planets around other stars, too. Now it looks like scientists have found that planets orbiting close to their stars can trigger the flares that threaten to harm them.

July 8, 2025 at 11:55PM
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