Star that varies in brightness repeatedly but sporadically, sometimes by more than one magnitude, within a few minutes.
The cause is thought to be the eruption of flares like those observed on the Sun but much larger (&see; solar flare). Proxima Centauri, in Alpha Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is a flare star.
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