Is There a Solar Flare on the Sun?

We've found another exoplanet with a lot of oxygen there, all with what's known as the photosynthesis edge. The papers for a couple of months now have been talking up the possibility of a massive solar flare possibly heading this way. And if you go to a website like UK Aurora Watch or spaceweather.com, there is a red alert for Aurora at reasonably high latitude, Scotland or there above and possibly even low. Now let's hear from Dr David Whitehouse about his new book 'The Red Planet', by Simon Morden who has written a biography of Mars.