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Massive flare seen on the closest star to the solar system: What it means for chances of alien neighbors

  • Written by R. O. Parke Loyd, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Astrophysics, Arizona State University
imageProxima Centauri is the closest star to the solar system and is home to a potentially habitable planet.Hubble/European Space Agency/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA

The Sun isn’t the only star to produce stellar flares. On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare ever measured from Proxima Centauri...

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