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Solar Flare
Solar flares are powerful explosions that occur in
the atmosphere of the Sun, more specifically in the parts known as the corona and the
chromosphere. When they erupt, they heat the Sun's plasma to tens of million of
degrees Celsius, in the process a...
Keywords:
Sun, flare, solar, magnetic
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
Proxima Centauri has been in the media a lot lately. This tiny red dwarf - only 1/7
the diameter of the Sun - is the closest star outside the Solar System, at 4.25
light-years.
What's so special about it? Well, it's got a planet ...
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landscape, red dwarf, Alpha Centauri, Proxima, star, exoplanet, planet, animatio...