No Chances For Life Around Red Dwarfs

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No Chances For Life Around Red Dwarfs

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The initial excitement of finding a "habitable" planet around a red dwarf star quickly evaporates when the astronomers remember one tiny detail - red dwarfs are notorious for unleashing catastrophic stellar flares that would absolutely barbecue any nearby planets! That hopeful little blue-green world in the first panel is about to get the cosmic equivalent of a death ray in the second panel. It's like getting excited about finding the perfect beach house, then realizing it's directly in the path of every hurricane ever. Red dwarfs may be the most common stars in our galaxy, but they're basically the overprotective parents of stellar systems - "No one gets to live near my planets without getting FRIED!"

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