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As astronomers hunt for habitable Earth-like worlds,

one popular place to look is around M-stars, a type of red dwarf.

A couple reasons for that.

First of all, most of the stars in our galaxy are like this.

Ike Gunter is an astronomer at the Turinger State Observatory in Germany. And secondly, the closest stars to us are like this. Eike Gunter is an astronomer at the Turinger State Observatory in Germany.

And secondly, the closest stars to us are like this.

And thirdly, it's relatively easy to find planets around them which have a low mass or small diameter.

M stars are smaller and fainter than our sun, meaning the zone around them where liquid water could exist, the habitable zone, is really close in.

And in that region around the star, it's also easier to spot small exoplanets with current techniques.

A few months back, Gunter had his telescope trained on an M-star 16 light years away, known as AD Leonis, when he spotted a huge stellar flare.

A Neptune-sized giant exoplanet lurking around the star appears to have survived unscathed.

But the event inspired Gunter and his team to ask how that huge flare

would have affected a hypothetical Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the same star.

So they ran a computer simulation.

The result, a shower of x-rays thousands of times stronger than what the sun unleashes on the Earth

would have blasted away much of the imaginary exoplanet's protective ozone.

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