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So this star is essentially going to live forever from what I understand (ie trillions of years). It's cool and the habitable zone is close to the star. So I k
by cletus 10y ago
So this star is essentially going to live forever from what I understand (ie trillions of years). It's cool and the habitable zone is close to the star.
So I know nothing about this kind of star but I was reading something last year talking about risks to life. There's of course the obvious like being hit by comets and asteroids, gamma ray bursts and so on.
But there's also CMEs (coronal mass ejections). A CME from the Sun directly hitting the Earth would be devastating. The chance of getting hit by a CME is inversely proportional to your distance from the star just because you occupy a smaller arc from the star's perspective.
I wonder if this kind of star and having the worlds so close would pose a huge threat from CMEs. Does this kind of star even have the same number of CMEs as say the Sun?