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Amid much excitement in 2016, astronomers revealed the discovery of an Earth-sized planet around the star closest to our Sun, Proxima Centauri. This exoplanet, just 4.2 light years from Earth, was close enough to its red dwarf star that water might well exist on its surface.
Alas, now we know that life probably does not live on the planet, at least not on the surface. In March 2016, astronomers using an array of telescopes known as Evryscope observed a "superflare" 10 times larger than any previous one detected from the red dwarf star.
The arXiv. Abstract number: 1804.02001 (About the arXiv). Submitted to AAS Journals.
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The Closest Exoplanet to Earth Just Got Doused With Deadly Flares
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Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected.
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday April 12 2018, @01:29AM
Except that this superflare probably happens every so often, so it'll happen again after you colonize it.