Sucks to be you, any aliens living anywhere near Proxima Centauri's record-smashing solar flare

Our stellar neighbor's biggest-ever belch would frazzle us Earthlings

Astronomers detected the most energetic solar flare ever seen from the Sun's closest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri. In fact, the cosmic belch was so intense, they doubt the star provides the right conditions to support DNA-based life on its exoplanets.…

from The Register