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Space weather discovery puts ‘habitable planets’ at risk

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Stellar flares with a chance of radio bursts: that’s the weather from Proxima Centauri. New research suggests exoplanets around red dwarf M-type stars will likely be exposed to coronal mass ejections, making the likelihood of finding life as we know it pretty slim.

Source: ScienceDaily.com