It was one of the biggest flares ever recorded in the Milky Way.
Meredith MacGregor, a CU Boulder astrophysicist, said that while Proxima Centauri is small, it's also powerful. Positioned only four light-years — more than 20 trillion miles from our sun —to at least two planets, one of which might resemble Earth. The star is also a"red dwarf:" the classification for stars that are atypically small and dim.
. The research team's discovery promises the discovery of a new physics that might fundamentally alter the way we think about stellar flares.However, the colossal solar flare probably spelled doom for any alien life still alive on Proxima Centauri's potentially Earth-like planet."If there was life on the planet nearest to Proxima Centauri, it would have to look very different than anything on Earth," explained MacGregor."A human being on this planet would have a bad time.
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