Largest Flare Ever Recorded From Proxima Centauri, The Sun’s Nearest Neighbor Observed By Astronomers

Artist’s conception of the violent stellar flare from Proxima Centauri discovered by scientists in 2019 using nine telescopes across the electromagnetic spectrum, including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Powerful flares eject from Proxima Centauri with regularity, impacting the star’s planets almost daily. Credit: NRAO/S. Dagnello

Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun’s nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri.

CU Boulder astrophysicist Meredith MacGregor explained that Proxima Centauri is a small but mighty star. It sits just four light-years or more than 20 trillion miles from our own sun and hosts at least two planets, one of which may look something like Earth. It’s also a red dwarf, the name for a class of stars that are unusually petite and dim.

Proxima Centauri has roughly one-eighth the mass of our own sun. But don’t let that fool you.

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