The first inhabited exoplanet will revolve around a nearby red dwarf star found in surveys taken within 100 light-years of Earth, it is predicted.
This is so because red dwarfs outnumber sun-like stars and so provide many more targets. And since red dwarfs are dim, planets orbiting them will not be as swamped by starlight making it easier to measure their light.
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