Why Don't We Live Around a Red Dwarf?

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New research! Join us today as we discuss a new research paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from our team - The Red Sky Paradox.

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THANK-YOU to our supporters T. Widdowson, D. Smith, M. Sloan, L. Sanborn, C. Bottaccini, D. Daughaday, A. Jones, S. Brownlee, Z. Star, T. Zanjonc, C. Wolfred, F. Rebolledo, L. Skov, E. Wilson, M. Elliott, B. Daniluk, J. Patrick-Saunders, M. Forbes, S. Vystoropskyi, S. Lee, Z. Danielson, C. Fitzgerald, V. Alexandrov, L. Macchia, C. Souter, M. Gillette, T. Jeffcoat, H. Jensen, F. Linker, J. Rockett, N. Fredrickson, B. Mlazgar, D. Holland, J. Alexander, E. Hanway, J. Molnar, D. Murphree, S. Hannum, T. Donkin, K. Myers, K. Clawson, M. Sanford, P. Matos, S. Hannum, T. Jawad, T. Schnipper, T. Donkin, T. Moss, K. Myers & M. O'Brien.

::Links::

► Kipping, D. (2021), "Formulation and resolutions of the red sky paradox", PNAS, 118 (26) e2026808118

► Our video "The Odds of Life and Intelligence"

► Our video "Why we might be alone in the universe"

::Music::

Music licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI], or via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (), or with permission from the artist

► Joachim Heinrich - Arrival

► Falls - Life in Binary

► Joachim Heinrich - Y

► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Two

► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five

► Indive - Fusion

::Video clips::

► The Thinker clip by Great Art Explained

► Tea sitirring clip by Chirag Kalelkar

► Cosmology simulation by ESO/L. Calçada/Microsoft WWT

► Sun videos by NASA/SDO

► TRAPPIST-1 animations by ESO/L. Calcada/spaceengine.org

► Roulette clip by steveh552

► Galactic colonization animation by Jonathan Caroll-Nellenback

► Easter Island clips by Easter Island WTM

► Proxima Centauri b animations by ESO/Konstantino Polizois/Nico Bartmann

► Planet formation animation by NCSA, NASA, A. Boley

► Jupiter clip by NASA/SwRI/MSSS/G. Eichstadt/S. Doran

► M-dwarf planet animation by ESO/M. Kornmesser

► HabEX animation by NASA/JPL

► Outro video by ESO/L.Calcada/spaceengine.org

::Film clips used::

► The House (2017) - Warner Bros

► Noah (2014) - Paramount Pictures

► Avatar (2009) - 20th Century Fox

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► Created by Helena Valenzuela Widerström

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