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23 Post author: JoshuaZ 19 April 2015 07:26PM

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 May 2015 06:27:08PM 0 points [-]

The situation is a bit more complicated. Wikipedia has a good summary. There's also been more recent work which suggests that the outer end of the habitable zone around red dwarfs may be larger than than earlier estimates. See my earlier comments here on this subject.