Lightcurve of Red Dwarf Superflare (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Lightcurve of Red Dwarf Superflare

Caption

Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a superflare (red line) that caused a red dwarf star's brightness in the far ultraviolet to abruply increase by a factor of nearly 200.

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P.Loyd/ASU

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