#stellar flare

Starlight's and Sunburts's parents past, my headcanon.

Starlight's mom developed complications after childbirth and had to stay in the hospital for a long time, so Firelight had to take care of Starlight alone for a while, only being able to pay her visits as often as possible.

The September 1859 Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm ever recorded on Earth, the result of an eruption of solar plasma towards the Earth. The geomagnetic storm resulted in low-latitude daytime auroras, and caused telegraph operators to get electric shocks and to be able to operate their telegraphs with the power source disconnected. If it happened today, there would be mass devastation to all electronic infrastructure. This event was important in heliophysics as it resulted in the discovery of Solar Flares.

This digital painting is a reproduction of what the Sun would have looked like with adequate filtration on 1859 September 1st at 11:20 AM GMT, for about 5 minutes or so. The drawing has been dimmed to adequately represent the difference in intensity between the photosphere and the flare with the limited dynamic range available to computer screens. To Carrington, the flare would have appeared on his projection screen more like a brilliantly luminous star upon the face of an already quite bright white sun.

White light flares occuring on the Photosphere (or surface) of the Sun like this are incredibly rare (thank goodness), although in modern times it is not unusual to see flares in the Sun's atmosphere, or Chromosphere, using specialized filtered telescopes. I have seen one or two myself.

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How about giving Sunburst and Starlight a half sibling?

I made Sunburst’s parents headcanon with a close friend. We were thinking about what to do with Stellar Flare and Sunspot’s backstory since we share some ideas. The writers literally forgot about his character, but we thought it would be cool if his father ended up separating from Stellar Flare taking Sunburst with him to canterlot (School for Gifted Unicorns) this period of fighting happened right when Sunburst received his admission letter, so he tried to distance himself from the drama by burying his head in books

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