Probability of living with space neighbor nil

washington - For a moment it seemed that life might be possible on a planet that revolves around the nearest star. But there is a line through that, American scientists now say. The chance of living on the planet Proxima b is nil.

Proxima b revolves around the star Proxima Centauri. It is only four light years from the earth, but it is so weak and small that it can not be seen with the naked eye. On measurements, scientists saw that the star on March 24 last year produced a huge solar flare, a magnetic eruption.

The explosion caused the star to become fiercer about a thousand times in ten seconds. The flame itself was ten times the size of a large flame of our sun. As a result, the planet was exposed to four thousand times more radiation than the earth receives from solar flares.