Scientists find how often sun-like stars emit superflares. It shocked them.

Our sun regularly shoots out solar flares — explosions of light and radiation from its surface — into space. But how about superflares?These stellar events are thousands of times more powerful than typical solar flares, which can wreak havoc on our power and communication systems. To better understand the superflare risk from the sun, astronomers sought to find how often sun-like stars blast out such potent radiation, and to find an answer they surveyed a whopping 56,000 stars. The r