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Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Red Dwarf Paradox

A red dwarf star is a smaller, colder star that tends to be redder than our sun. Daniel: Is it because when you're smaller, you don't have as much fusion if at all inside the core of the gas cloud?Daniel: There's definitely a close connection between the size of the star and its internal temperature. And that's just because of gravity. Like more mass means more gravitational pressure, which means higher temperature.

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