Astronomer Salau on Instagram: "The video is about an astronomical first where a storm (Coronal Mass Ejection - CME) was observed erupting on a star other than our Sun. ​The star is a Red Dwarf called StKM 1-1262, and the storm was discovered to be at least 10,000 times more violent than known solar storms on our Sun. It was so powerful it could have stripped away the atmosphere of any nearby planets. This discovery has implications for the search for potentially habitable planets around other s