Gargantuan Flare from Sun's Nearest Neighbor
A team of astronomers spotted an extreme outburst, or flare, from the Sun’s nearest neighbor–the star Proxima Centauri, a “red dwarf” with about one-eighth the mass of our Sun., Proxima Centauri sits just four light-years, or almost 25 trillion miles, from the center of our Solar System and hosts at least two planets, one of which may look something like Earth. Red dwarfs, also known as M-dwarfs, are a class of stars that contain the least massive and coolest main-sequence stars in the Milky Way. They are also hosts to many of the thousands of known exoplanets. The most massive...
Source: dailygalaxy.com