red dwarfs
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Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Exoplanet Spotted In The Kepler Reject Pile
For years, a dedicated team of experts has manually sifted through troves of rejected Kepler data in hopes of finding something the computers had missed—an exercise that has resulted in the discovery of what is now arguably the most Earth-like planet known to astronomers.
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This Stormy Star Means Alien Life May Be Rarer Than We Thought
There’s a red dwarf about 35 light-years from here that’s spewing powerful, life crushing solar flares into space. These types of stellar objects are fairly common, leading to speculation that our galaxy is less habitable than we thought.