4 matches found for search term
flare, exact phrase.
Aurora Planet
This is the view from a planet in a close orbit around a magnetic flare star. These stars have such gigantic episodes of
magnetic activity that they must have huge starspots, some of which have actually
been imaged. Life on a nearby planet would be i...
Keywords:
flare, star, magnetic, starspot, landscape, aurora,
exoplanet, planet...
Gliese 229b
Gliese 229 is a red dwarf flare star some 19
light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (the Hare). In 1994, astronomers
detected a companion object, Gliese 229b, which turned out to be a brown dwarf.
Indeed it was the first such object ever to b...
Keywords:
Gliese 229b, brown dwarf, satellite, star, red dwarf...
Proxima Centauri b – Flyover
... atmosphere but no water. To the left of Proxima is Alpha Centauri, a binary
consisting of two Sun-like stars. Proxima is a flare star - it's highly magnetic and spews out streams of
charged particles. If the world has its own magnetic field (like E ...
Keywords:
landscape, red dwarf, Alpha Centauri, Proxima, star, exoplanet, planet, animatio...
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