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Astronomers are Watching a Planet Get its Atmosphere Blasted Away into Space

u get when a hot young world orbits a wildly unstable young red dwarf? For AU Microsopii b, the answer is: flares from the star tearing away the atmosphere. That catastrophic loss happens in fits and starts, "hiccuping" out its atmosphere at one point and then losing practically none the next.

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