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Red dwarf stars just got caught eating their own Earth-like planets — six young stars lit up with lithium signatures that could only come from devoured rocky worlds
Somewhere between 50 and 200 million years ago, in three stellar nurseries not far from our corner of the Milky Way, at least ...
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Astronomers observe six red dwarf stars 'eating' Earth-like planets
A young red dwarf can look calm from a distance. But buried in its light may be the chemical remains of a wrecked world. That ...
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Red dwarf stars are cosmic killers that eat their own planets
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
Roughly three quarters of the stars in the galaxy are red dwarfs, but planet searches have typically passed over these tiny faint stars because they were thought to be unfriendly to potential life ...
This artist’s impression shows a sunset seen from the super-Earth Gliese 667 Cc. Astronomers have estimated that there are tens of billions of such rocky worlds orbiting faint red dwarf stars in the ...
They’re the most common star in the universe. We know of hundreds of rocky exoplanets orbiting them. And as a result, red dwarf stars are prime targets for scientists’ ongoing search for life in the ...
Red dwarfs make up the vast majority of stars in the galaxy. Such ubiquity means they host the majority of rocky exoplanets we've found so far—which in turn makes them interesting for astrobiological ...
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