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... I believe the headline stated this planet "will outlive [our] sun by 100 billion years." I would have expected a yellow sun to last much longer than a red dwarf. So... I started reading up on stars. I thought white-yellow-red was a "lifespan" of sorts... turns out stars are more complicated than I thought! This planet's orbit must be close to its sun... there are likely billions more Earth-like planets out there... some with comfortable distances from their home star.
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