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Sunscreen anyone? Proxima Centauri just spit out its biggest solar flare ever – SYFY WIRE

In an eruption of amazing magnitude, the volatile star Proxima Centauri (our Sun’s closest neighbor) has just belched out its biggest solar flare ever recorded…

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In an eruption of amazing magnitude, the volatile star Proxima Centauri (our Sun’s closest neighbor) has just belched out its biggest solar flare ever recorded and the implications may mean that if alien life existed on its pair of orbiting planets, it would look very different from Earth’s.
Led by a team of researchers at CU Boulder in Colorado, a study of the fantastic flare was published this week in the online journal, The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Officially categorized as a Red Dwarf,…

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