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Red supergiants are necessarily no more than about 25 million years old; they keep ejecting a lot of material, forming nebulae; and then they end as supernovae.
by mkempe 9y ago
Red supergiants are necessarily no more than about 25 million years old; they keep ejecting a lot of material, forming nebulae; and then they end as supernovae. So, unlikely to have sufficient time and relative calm to form and maintain planets.