Tagged: Proxima Centauri

As the current sunspot cycle (Cycle 25) revs up, we can expect our sun to become more active in the coming few years. And that means more solar flares, or bursts of radiation on our sun. But the flares on our sun can’t compare to...

If you look up in the southern sky you can see the “pointer” stars, pointing towards the Southern Cross. One of these pointers is Alpha Centauri, which is actually a pair of Sun-like stars that are too close together to tell apart by eye. There...