Re: Mercury and 61 Cygni B

On 3 m=E4rts, 20:43, Damien Valentine <valen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 2, 12:18 am, Crown-Horned Snorkack <chornedsnork...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> > But are unpredictable flares realy so much worse than unpredictable
> > weather?
>
> Well, it was my understanding that flare stars release thousands of
> times as much X-rays and UV as our Sun does during a Solar flare.

Seriously?

How do those stars beat the Wien law blue edge of the thermal
blackbody radiation of the Sun?

> Which probably isn't good news, unless you're a tanning parlor.

Neither is sunny weather.