According to scientists, the Sun can generate monstrous eruptions or 'superflares', capable of breaking down not just radio communication and power supplies, but can also have a bad impact on the ability of our planet to support life.

Solar eruptions often hit Earth. The eruptions are packed with energetic particles that are thrown out by the Sun into space. However, in the times when Sun hurls out massive amounts of hot plasma at the time of huge solar eruptions, it could have serious consequences.

Kepler mission discovered the superflares in larger numbers four years back and since then, they have been a mystery. The biggest noted eruption took place back in September 1859. That time, worldwide telegraph system had gone haywire, and Greenland ice core records indicated that the energetic particles from the solar storm damaged protective ozone layer of our planet.

Denmark’s Aarhus University researchers used observations of magnetic fields on the surface of roughly 100,000 stars made using the new Guo Shou Jing telescope in China. Using them, they showed that these superflares have been probably formed through the same mechanism as solar flares.

But, out of all the stars with superflares analyzed by researchers, nearly 10% possessed a magnetic field of strength akin or weaker as compared to that of the Sun's.

Thus, though there are not lot many chances of such a thing, it isn’t impossible that the Sun may generate a superflare.