Our Solar
System is highly unusual and
our Sun is a yellow dwarf
star - which together with white dwarf stars should be
common elsewhere - but instead red dwarf stars are by
far the most common stars in the Milky Way by a factor
of five.
This presents rather an interesting problem that has
been dubbed the 'Red Sky Paradox'.
Red dwarf
stars emit less energy in comparison to our sun which
mean any planets orbiting them need to be closer to the
star to reach habitable temperatures.
EU advocate, Gareth Samuel, creator of "See the
Pattern", expands on how red dwarf stars are an
attractive prospect for the search for
extraterrestrial
life.
