Proxima Centauri b went from normal to 14,000 times brighter when seen in ultraviolet wavelengths over the span of a few seconds. Meredith MacGregor More Quotes by Meredith MacGregor More Quotes From Meredith MacGregor A lot of the exoplanets that we've found so far are around these types of stars, but the catch is that they're way more active than our sun. They flare much more frequently and intensely. Meredith MacGregor If there was life on the planet nearest to Proxima Centauri, it would have to look very different than anything on Earth, a human being on this planet would have a bad time. Meredith MacGregor Proxima Centauri's planets are getting hit by something like this not once in a century, but at least once a day if not several times a day. Meredith MacGregor
