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Massive Flare Seen on Closest Star to the Solar System

09/05/2021 10:32 PM | Click to read full article

On April 21, 2021, a team of astronomers published new research describing the brightest flare ever measured from Proxima Centauri in ultraviolet light.

To learn about the extraordinary event - and what it might mean for any life on the planets orbiting Earth's closest neighboring star - The Conversation spoke with Parke Loyd, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University and co-author of the paper.

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