Study leader Kosuke Namekata, a PhD student at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, believes that storm could be just as strong the one from EK Draconis. Experts fear a catastrophic solar storm will occur in this solar system by the end of the century. It was much more powerful than any seen before. Most powerful ejection on recordĪn international team observed the astonishing burst of energy pouring out of EK Draconis. “Coronal mass ejections can have a serious impact on Earth and human society,” says co-author Dr. Every 100 years or so, the Sun releases these clouds in our direction. In our solar system, this is potentially bad news. Known as a coronal mass ejection (CME), stars regularly shoot out clouds of extremely hot particles (plasma) that hurtle through space at tremendous speeds. Researchers say it lies in the constellation of Draco in the far northern sky. The star is named EK Draconis – Latin for dragon – and it is essentially breathing fire. The study suggests that such a solar flare would fry satellites in orbit and crash power grids which serve entire cities - causing widespread blackouts and knocking out phone networks. The team describes that sun’s spectacular fireworks show as “troubling” and warn that a similar event could hit Earth. Researchers from the University of Colorado-Boulder say astronomers spotted a powerful version of this stellar phenomenon for the first time in a star system just 100 light years away. ( ) – A devastating solar storm could send mankind back to the dark ages, according to new research. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.īOULDER, Colo. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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