Just How Bad are Superflares to a Planet’s Habitability?

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An artist's conception of a superflare event, on a dwarf star. Image credit: Mark Garlick/University of Warwick

Star’s can be full of surprises; some of them nasty. While our own Sun appears pretty placid, science has shown us that’s not the case. Coronal mass ejections and solar flares are the Sun’s angry side.

And the Sun has only a mild case of the flares, compared to some other stars.

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