Red dwarf star systems: Promising for life, but watch the apocalyptic flares by Peter N. Spotts 01/11/2011 02/02/2012. Share this: ...

Stars are far from calm entities. They can erupt in spectacular bursts of energy that disrupt the space around them, and ...

Red dwarfs are very active in their youth, emitting lots of such flares. Astronomers have documented this activity repeatedly; for example, Proxima Centauri was seen to fire off a superflare in ...

The star is a young red dwarf that is only about one-third the sun’s mass. It’s part of a binary dwarf system called DG Canum Venaticorum (or DG CVn for short), located about 60 light-years away.

A small red dwarf star has erupted with the brightest flare ever seen from a normal star other than the Sun. If the star hosted planets, the flare could have killed any life that might have ...

The enormous flare occurred on Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf located approximately four-light years from Earth. But while this star is the closest to our own, it scarcely resembles our stellar ...

A giant flare that is 100 times more powerful than any flare our sun has ever released has erupted from a nearby star, a new study says. Posted 8:06 p.m. Apr 21, 2021 — Updated 8:06 p.m. Apr 21 ...

An M class star once thought to be tame is actually very active with solar flares The ultraviolet observations by Hubble revealed the flares Although considered cooler, M stars are also prone to ...

T Corona Borealis, commonly known as the "blaze star," may flare up and be visible to the naked eye on Earth for the first time in about 80 years. ... The other one is a red giant star.

These cause flares that can double the star’s brightness in just a few seconds. As red dwarfs age, they spin more slowly. Barnard’s Star is old — probably 11 or 12 billion years old, which ...

Red dwarf only 16 light-years away spurts out flare 100 times as powerful as our own Sun's.

Red dwarf stars have several virtues that make them potential homes for Earth-like planets, but a new study suggests they also produce the largest solar flares ever seen.