Friday 3 October 2014

NASA's Swift satellite sees small star ejecting 'super flares'

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
NASA's Swift satellite sees small star ejecting 'super flares'
Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Sep 30, 2014 - Astronomers don't normally use canine clichés, but if they did, they might employ one - it's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog - to describe a small but energetic red dwarf in a binary system known as DG Canum Venaticorum, or DG CVn. That's because red dwarfs like DG CVn serve a serious electromagnetic punch in a small package. Astronomers kn ... more


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