Not exact matches
Brain and his colleagues started to think
about applying these insights to a hypothetical Mars - like planet in orbit
around some type of M -
star, or
red dwarf, the most common class of
stars in our galaxy.
SS: TESS will do an all - sky survey to find rocky worlds
around the bright, closest M -
stars [
red dwarfs that are common and smaller than the sun — and therefore more likely to reveal the shadows cast by planets],
about 500,000
stars.
Scholz's
star is actually a binary system formed by a small
red dwarf, with
about 9 % of the mass of the Sun,
around which a much less bright and smaller brown
dwarf orbits.
The best estimates for the occurrence rates of habitable zone earth - sized planets
around sun - like
stars is
about 50 %, and for lower - mass
stars this value is likely to be even higher: most
red dwarf stars are expected to have one or more habitable zone, approximately earth - sized planets.
Hence, Earth - type life
around flare
stars may be unlikely because their planets must be located very close to dim
red dwarfs to be warmed sufficiently by
star light to have liquid water (
about 0.007 AU for Proxima), which makes flares even more dangerous
around such
stars.