Well, that’s a bit dramatic (it explodes a lot) — but a particularly large sunspot named AR2781 produced a C5-class solar flare which is a medium-sized explosion even for the Sun. Flares range ...
They detected two luminous flares from this event. The finding was reported in a paper published Dec. 19 on the preprint server arXiv. Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are astronomical phenomena ...