Telescope catches 'monster flare'

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6124960.stm
This is a big one, glad we are not in its path
The energy release was equivalent to about 50 million trillion atomic bombs
Charles

A nice observation to have managed to make. Were this to happen on the sun I think the only thing we could say would be *sizzle*

Bart.

Were this to happen on the sun I think the only thing we could say would be *sizzle*

But if we survived there would be plenty of new aurora slides to look at

Were this to happen on the sun I think the only thing we could say would be *sizzle*

But if we survived there would be plenty of new aurora slides to look at

John Flannery would be most pleased! :lol:

Coal-miners would survive it.

Then the Human Race would become the "Coal-miner Race".