In this article in The Atlantic, read about a study about potential life on planets around flaring stars by Carl Sagan Institute astronomers Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger and Dr. Jack O'Malley-James.
"Potential life on Proxima b—on any planets around other stars—probably won’t resemble the kind on our planet, Kaltenegger says, but earthly beings are the only blueprints we have. So the astronomers wondered, what happens here, when ultraviolet radiation from the sun smacks into lifeforms on Earth? They found the answer in the sea, in coral reefs that glow in the dark."
Click here to read the full story in The Atlantic.