flare star

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   a red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes

   Broaderred dwarf

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Questions about flare star

What does flare star mean?

flare star means "a red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes".

Is flare star a common word?

flare star is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.