Initial blast from record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded At its peak, the flare reached temperatures of 360 million degrees Fahrenheit (200 million Celsius), more than 12 times hotter than the center of the sun ‘Superflare’ came from one of the stars in a close binary system known as DG Canum Venaticorum located about 60 light-years away. […]