LSU: Discovery of Extreme Superflares on Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph
January 13, 2022
January 13, 2022
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Jan. 13 (TNSRep) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release:
Startlingly, the Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph has been discovered to have extreme superflares, with the bursts more frequent and 100,000 times more powerful than any other known superflare star, in terms of energy per year. The energy in just one flare is up to 20 million times that of the infamous Carrington Event of 1859.
"The startling discovery of extreme super . . .
Startlingly, the Recurrent Nova V2487 Oph has been discovered to have extreme superflares, with the bursts more frequent and 100,000 times more powerful than any other known superflare star, in terms of energy per year. The energy in just one flare is up to 20 million times that of the infamous Carrington Event of 1859.
"The startling discovery of extreme super . . .