What Do You Think About The Super Flare Of Proxima Centauri?

[alfa015]

Hi guys, I hope you are doing well

 

So.. the other day I read that Proxima Centauri released a huge flare last year, decreasing the chances of existing life in Proxima b

 

What do you think about it? I also read that the flare lasted 2 minutes.. what if the flare happened in the part of the star that was not facing Proxima b? Proxima Centauri rotates every 82 days.. I think that maybe the flare might have been released on the oposite side towards empty space (or other exoplanets)

 

I recently made a new video on the top 5 potentially habitable exoplanets closest to Earth in 2018 (here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6smyz2tUk&list=PL3RiFKfZj3pv1ZqpFxuZinoGtUGEOankw ) in which I included Proxima b because it is still considered the one with the highest earth similarity index. Do you think that Proxima b should not be considered a potentially habitable exoplanet anymore? Should the target of the Starshot project be changed?

[Deepwater6]

I enjoyed your video, the more slight differences we find between potentially habitable exoplanets and earth, the more I come to appreciate this planet and its moon. I'm hopeful that if there was any plant life there it wasn't torched off the surface by the flare. We'll just have to wait until Starshot gets there to see.

 

I also keep waiting for the James Webb scope to go up to get us more clues about all our neighbors and their atmospheres, but it seems the launch has been pushed back yet again. Very frustrating. I liked your video though. 

[alfa015]

I enjoyed your video, the more slight differences we find between potentially habitable exoplanets and earth, the more I come to appreciate this planet and its moon. I'm hopeful that if there was any plant life there it wasn't torched off the surface by the flare. We'll just have to wait until Starshot gets there to see.

 

I also keep waiting for the James Webb scope to go up to get us more clues about all our neighbors and their atmospheres, but it seems the launch has been pushed back yet again. Very frustrating. I liked your video though. 

 

thanks so much

 

indeed, i agree with you, active flare stars are a problem, but i think that if proxima b had a magnetic field stronger than earth, those flares wouldn't be much of a problem