Astronomers have detected a tiny star releasing a huge “super flare” of X-rays 10 times more energetic than the most intense flares sun can produce. The tiny star, identified as J0331-27, is an L dwarf,  a star with so little mass that it hardly qualifies as a star. Astronomers are still puzzled over the capability of such small bodies to emit such a powerful flare. The strange flare went unnoticed for nearly 12 years until it was discovered by astronomers from the data recorded by the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory. Astronomers consider this discovery unusual because they did not expect L-dwarf stars to give rise to such massive outbursts. Researchers are now focusing on understanding such uniqueness on the L dwarf and hoping to unlock more such discoveries.