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https://archive.ph/5d0XJ :

None | Scientists Mull the Astrobiological Implications of an Airless Alien Planet - Scientific American

'LHS 3844 b orbits incredibly close to its parent star, zipping around in a mere 11 hours. '

'He has previously done theoretical calculations suggesting that red dwarfs are prone to blow away the atmospheres of exoplanets in their habitable zone. '

'Red dwarfs are not only abundant but are also the longest-living stars, with a lifetime that can span 10 trillion years—1,000-fold longer than that of our sun. '

'Examinations of a planet orbiting the red dwarf star LHS 3844 seemed to indicate that the rocky super-Earth, 30 percent larger than our world, possessed little or no atmosphere. '

'Kreidberg’s preliminary disappointment about LHS 3844 b eventually dissipated. “If you were an alien looking at our solar system and saw Mercury, you’d be a little discouraged,” she says, but our cosmic backyard contains a wide diversity of atmospheres. '


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