#Recently discovered planets not as safe from stellar flares as first thought
“#Recently discovered planets not as safe from stellar flares as first thought” Violent outbursts of seething gas from young red dwarf stars may make conditions uninhabitable on fledgling planets. In this artist’s rendering, an active, young red dwarf (right) is stripping the atmosphere from an orbiting planet (left). Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI)…