If you know it's not as warm as the sun, what happens to the habitable zone? And another sort of the properties that you're seeking. We have to look much closer to an M star than we would to around a sun-like star. There's some interesting things that can happen when a planet is orbiting that close into its star.
If scientists discovered that we are not alone, what would they do with that information? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about the search for life, habitability around M stars and more with astrophysics professor and author Aomawa Shields.
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