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It doesn't say it's never happened before. It clearly says "we've never seen it before."

• onion2k 4y ago
  It was the "This is STRANGE!" bit that I was talking about. It (probably) isn't strange. It's probably happened a lot over the past 4.6bn years that the sun has been doing its thing. It's new to us because we've only been observing it for a tiny length of time. That's not the same as it being strange.
  • jaywalk 4y ago
    One definition of strange is: "not previously visited, seen, or encountered; unfamiliar or alien" It's not necessarily strange in the scope of the sun's entire existence, but it's definitely strange to us.
  • anigbrowl 4y ago
    By that yardstick nothing is strange; there are so many trillions of cosmic bodies distributed across so many billions of years that any imaginable phenomenon has probably occurred zillions of times. Strangeness in science is synonymous with not being readily explicable by existing theory.