[Pez149]

This display was meant to to answer those who believed that there’s life in that star system.
Something on our sun close to this would be catastrophic.

[353FMG]

Perhaps the people in that neighborhood had their “last day” and we witnessed it.

[353FMG]

Perhaps the people in that neighborhood had their “last day” and we witnessed it.

[Jagermonster]

Something on our sun close to this would be catastrophic.

IIRC, red dwarfs are thought to flare because they are not dense enough to contain their convection in layers, generating intense magnetic fields which, when the fields shift, let off Hellish amounts of energy as a flare. Heavier stars like our sun keep convection in layers, and the magnetic fields of the convection are correspondingly smaller, with shifts in the fields producing smaller flares.

Disclaimer, I am not an astrophysicist, nor do I play one on TV.