Even Calm Red Dwarf Stars Blast Their Planets with Mini-Flares, Destroying their Habitability

universetoday.com ^ | 07/07/2017 | Matt Williams

[Red Badger]

They’re all dead, Jim.....................

[DannyTN]

I hate when a red dwarf flares my habitat.

[Red Badger]

Krypton orbited a red sun and we all know what happened to it!..............................

[no-to-illegals]

ok, who let the red dwarf have a phaser???

[ichabod1]

She flared my habitat.

[tet68]

Don’t crush that Red dwarf, hand
me the pliers!

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Every time I hear one of these scumbag libtards spout off on TV, I start to wish OUR sun would turn into a red dwarf and put us all out of our misery.

[MNDude]

This story is BS.

[ClearCase_guy]

Keep Calm
And Blast Your Planets
with Mini-Flares,
Destroying their Habitability

[BenLurkin]

May it be the shadow’s call
will fly away.
May it be you journey on
to light the day.
When the night is overcome
you may rise to find the sun.

(Darkness has come)
Believe and you will find your way.
(Darkness has fallen)
A promise lives within you now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y_R7CBmDAE

[Rurudyne]

So a planet relying on unstable red dwarfs is like a conservative relying on Republicans, huh?

[no-to-illegals]

Here ya go. May I watch???

[Joe Brower]

Mornië utúlië.

Mornië alantië.

[Lawgvr1955]

High School Madness, with Porgy and Mudhead!

[Fred Hayek]

More likely it will go red giant, but that’s 4 billion years away.

[Carl Vehse]

The “habitable zone” for a planet orbiting a red dwarf may be closer than Mercury is to our sun. And like Mercury the planet’s rotation around its axis would likely be phase-locked to its orbit, leaving one side in continual darkness and the other side in continual sunlight, blasted by red dwarf flares.

These factors and many others suggest that, with all the planets associated with the billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy, the estimated probable number of planets with Earth-like conditions hospitable to intelligent life is likely very close to the experimentally known value of one.

[central_va]

Whoops, wrong red dwarf.

[samtheman]

I agree with you. I think that in the hundreds of billions of galaxies in the visible universe, that the average number of planets with a fully developed intelligent species such as ours (yes, I know, we have muslims and democrats, but even still, I think we qualify) is 1 per galaxy.

That’s my guess.

[libertylover]

presented the this week at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Probably 90% of the participants go there on government money where they hear boring lectures from 9-5 and then party till midnight or after.