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What weird thing in space is pulsing every 20 minutes?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Unpredictability of Our Sun

Most flare stars that are out there tend to be of the red dwarf variety. Red dwarfs are much more common kind of star than ours. Our sun is a little bit hotter than the typical red type of star. So we live on an unusually hot kind of star. And so our sun doesn't have these sort of star sneezes like these red dwarfs have. But even our sun can burp in our direction.

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