Our region of the Milky Way is dominated by red dwarf stars, but if you look up at the night sky you’ll not see any of them.
Smaller than our Sun, not one single red dwarf star is visible to the naked eye, not even the next star along, Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.24 light-years distant. Yet, being the most common and the longest-lasting stars of all, they dominate planet-hunting.
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