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Artist’s depiction of a flare-coronal mass ejection event on Proxima Centauri. Mark Myers, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav)

Bad space weather may make life impossible near Proxima Centauri

We observed a powerful flare and a huge burst of radio waves from our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, indicating violent space weather around the star.
A view from CSIRO’s Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope antenna 29, with the phased array feed receiver in the centre, Southern Cross on the left and the Moon on the right. CSIRO/Alex Cherney

How we closed in on the location of a fast radio burst in a galaxy far, far away

For the first time scientists have located the home galaxy of a one-off fast radio burst. Here’s how they did it – and what they learned about the galaxy.

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