“Do not dream of flowers on GJ 3998 d”

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Exciting to see Artemis II rocketing to the moon! It’s a long road from the moon to humans visiting exoplanets, and this is 35th in my “Exoplanet” series which explores facets of planets identified outside the solar system.

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In this artwork I explored one of the side-effects of being on a planet in a red-dwarf system. The star’s nuclear fusion burns slower than other star types, producing less light. If plants grew in this environment, they’d probably be black to better absorb red-dwarf energy, and flowers perhaps nonexistent.