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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Space. I'm Chris Crockett. Got a minute?
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2 .Imagine if your living room zoomed from a comfy 70 degrees to 3,000.
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3 .In less time than it usually takes to boil an egg.
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4 .Well, a star did the equivalent,
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5 .it went from 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit to 30,000 degrees in less than three minutes.
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6 .And got 15 times brighter in the process.
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7 .Sixteen light-years away, the star WX Ursa Majoris is what's called a "flare star."
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8 .It's usually a red dwarf: cooler, fainter and smaller than the sun.
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9 .But every so often, it goes wild.
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10 .Why certain stars flare remains a mystery.
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11 .But astronomers think it starts with a disruption in the star's magnetic field.
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12 .Parts of the field twist, break and reconnect.
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13 .As they do, energy gets pumped into the star's atmosphere, and the candle becomes a searchlight.
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14 .The observations are in the journal Astrophysics.
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15 .WX orbits another, bigger star.
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16 .Astronomers are watching to see if that neighbor is an instigator.
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17 .Should future flares sync to the stars' orbits, we'll gain insights into flare stars and on how binary stars affect one another.
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18 .The research should shed some light.
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19 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Space. I'm Chris Crockett.
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