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), and then I got more into reading articles, and only used it a little after then, and have done little looking through scopes since those years. But I really enjoy astronomy articles and images, along with all sorts of astrophysics, especially the stuff I listed in the OP there.
Thanks for the interesting link. More evidence that the universe is wondrous.
Not great for life developing there, but possible a good place for an advanced species to set up shop for the long haul. Those things can theoretically last a trillion years.
On the plus side, they say that a third of red dwarfs do not actively flare:
That was actually a hand-waving hypothetical sentence. Notably hopeful. We want to instead be clear-eyed of course. It's useful to be aware that only recently do we have instruments that are good at observing variability (for instance Kepler is an example). The instruments needs to be outside the atmosphere ideally (to notice smaller but still important variation), and also needs to stare at the same star(s) a significant time. It's useful to be aware it's easy to find articles only laying out an older theory with some older observations that have been superseded. In the past, "variable" meant large variation, that is quite dramatic, like for example Cepheid. But we want to know more than only that there are extremely variable stars. We want to know instead what about typical stars that don't have dramatic variation, as to whether they are highly stable like our sun, or have still significant variation or too much flaring, etc.
