/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15427071
Its simple math. Red Dwarfs are more active than the Sun, you don't need citations to know this, just go and read any astronomy book.

And here is the killer - if they are within Mercury orbit, they get showered by neutrons. Our Sun also emits neutrons, but most of them decay before they reach Earth, so we don't really suffer from them, but if the planet is very close to the very active star, it gets a lot of neutrons. And neutrons = death.