An international team involving UCL astronomers has observed the first clear signal of a giant stellar eruption from a star beyond our solar system. The stellar eruption is analogous to a coronal mass ejection (CME) seen on our Sun, and implies a devastating impact for any planet unlucky enough to orbit the star. The study, led by ASTRON (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) and the Observatoire de Paris-PSL, found the short, intense burst of radio waves from a nearby red dwarf star,