# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/tl6SzWIaC7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11738286-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2014-10-01T02:01:02.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Mega Flares from a Mini Star: On April 23, our Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded.

DG CVn, a binary consisting of two red dwarf stars shown here in an artist's rendering, unleashed a series of powerful flares seen by Swift. At its peak, the initial flare was brighter in X-rays than the combined light from both stars at all wavelengths under typical conditions.

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger

#nasa #sun #solarflare #stars #xray #swift #reddwarf #science

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sun, solarflare, science, nasa, xray, reddwarf, swift, stars

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