
Why didn't we evolve around a red dwarf star?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Different Experiences of Red Dwarfs
Most red dwarfs are kind of just like our stars, but they can have planets orbiting around them. What would their sun look like to someone living on a planet like that? Well, if you were at the same distance from that red dwarf as we are from our sun, then of course, it'd be a lot dimmer,. And colder, right? Yeah, exactly. It'd be dark and chilly. Of course, you could be closer up and then you'd be brighter and warmer. But the star itself is colder, which means its light is redder. So you look in the sky, you wouldn't see like a yellow or white sun. You see like a pale
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