Scientists have found that the planets' atmosphere orbiting around the host star may get affected and become hazardous to live. The Hubble Telescope, through a programme called HAZMAT, Habitable Zones and M dwarf Activity is observing these activities.
The programme is an observation of or ultraviolet survey of red dwarfs. The programme includes inspection in three different stages, and they are, young, intermediate, and old.
These red drawf stars, in astronomical terms, are named M drawf. They are the smallest stars that have lived the longest and are the most abundant ones in our galaxy. This was published in The Astrophysical Journal according to a study.
The flares are said to get their power from intense magnetic fields that tangled by the motions of the stellar atmosphere. Hubble's sensitivity to ultraviolet rays makes it very valuable and useful for observing these flares. A large amount of energy is released when this tangling of these fields gets very intense that results in their breaking and reconnecting.
The programme's principal investigator, Evgenya Shkolnik stated that the primary motive of the Hubble Telescope is to understand the habitability of the planets that orbit around the low-mass stars.
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