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SmithsonianScience: Harsh space weather dooms life on red-dwarf planets
http://smithsonianscience.org/2014/06/harsh-space-weather-may-doom-potential-life-red-dwarf-planets/
Allow me to play devil's advocate to spice up this sht: This proves God loves us. Life is so rare and could only exist if He custom-builds an environment to cradle life.
http://smithsonianscience.org/2014/06/harsh-space-weather-may-doom-potential-life-red-dwarf-planets/
Life in the universe might be even rarer than we thought. Recently, astronomers looking for potentially habitable worlds have targeted red dwarf stars because they are the most common type of star, comprising 80 percent of the stars in the universe. But a new study shows that harsh space weather might strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting in a red dwarf’s habitable zone.
“A red-dwarf planet faces an extreme space environment, in addition to other stresses like tidal locking,” says Ofer Cohen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Cohen presented their findings this week in a press conference at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Allow me to play devil's advocate to spice up this sht: This proves God loves us. Life is so rare and could only exist if He custom-builds an environment to cradle life.