{"id":226537,"date":"2025-12-05T00:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/frequent-flares-from-trappist-1-could-impact-habitability-of-nearby-planets"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:31:49","slug":"frequent-flares-from-trappist-1-could-impact-habitability-of-nearby-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/frequent-flares-from-trappist-1-could-impact-habitability-of-nearby-planets","title":{"rendered":"Frequent flares from TRAPPIST-1 could impact habitability of nearby planets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/frequent-flares-from-trappist-1-could-impact-habitability-of-nearby-planets3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation Aquarius about 40 light-years from Earth, spits out bursts of energy known as \u201cflares\u201d about six times a day.<\/p>\n<p>New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder takes the deepest look yet at the physics behind TRAPPIST-1\u2019s celestial temper tantrums. The team\u2019s findings could help scientists search for habitable planets beyond Earth\u2019s solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used observations from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-04-webb-telescope-incredible-discoveries-dark.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> and computer simulations (models) to understand how TRAPPIST-1 produces its flares\u2014first building up magnetic energy, then releasing it to kick off a chain of events that launches radiation deep into space. The results could help scientists unravel how the star has shaped its nearby planets, potentially in drastic ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a toddler right before naptime, TRAPPIST-1 is a small yet moody star. This little star, which sits in the constellation Aquarius about 40 light-years from Earth, spits out bursts of energy known as \u201cflares\u201d about six times a day. New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder takes the deepest look yet at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}