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Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in nearly a decade, but Earth should be safe this time (apnews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

There's also the study on super flares on solar like stars: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11063 From this and follow-up papers it absolutely can happen on the Sun, just with a very low probability.

(I never thought this would ever come up on social media)