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Why most stars don’t have outbursts like our Sun’s
The Sun’s surface occasionally erupts with a geyser of matter (pictured) called a coronal mass ejection, but many similar stars lack such features. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory/NASA/Science Photo Library
The intense magnetic fields around many stars could explain why these objects are rarely seen producing outbursts of activity comparable to the Sun’s1.
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