ALMA Records Giant Stellar Flare on Proxima Centauri, Astronomy

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Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers discovered that a giant stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri -- the star closest to our Sun -- on March 24, 2017. This finding raises questions about the habitability of the recently-discovered Earth-mass planet Proxima b.

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