Our sun will hardly become a red dwarf at any point in its lifespan. It’ll instead become a red giant, large enough that it’ll likely consume the Earth (and even if it doesn’t, anything still on the surface will be pretty much burnt crisp), before fizzling out into a white dwarf at the end of its lifespan (current science suggests it’s not massive enough to supernova).
In other news, though, it is known that red dwarf stars are decidedly more common in our galaxy than other types, and we have since found evidence of planets orbiting such stars, with a number within the right areas to possibly have the needed conditions to support life.
We, of course, still can’t know for sure if any actually CAN support life, or how many on average we could reasonably expect them to. But given the odds as we currently understand them, it’s not outside the realm of possibility. So, yes, you theoretically could have a planet in a system matching that of Krypton’s description, though how good the odds of that are, I couldn’t say (probably not that high though).
Whether or not that planet is populated by a race of people advanced enough to have interstellar travel who also gain miraculous superpowers when in the vicinity of a powerful enough of a star…that’s another story.
One of the verisons of Superman come from an future earth that had an red sun and the explosion send him into the past. Its called Red Son and is very good.
Ida No over 4 years ago
Bodkins, dude. What are the odds, bodkins?
scyphi26 over 4 years ago
Our sun will hardly become a red dwarf at any point in its lifespan. It’ll instead become a red giant, large enough that it’ll likely consume the Earth (and even if it doesn’t, anything still on the surface will be pretty much burnt crisp), before fizzling out into a white dwarf at the end of its lifespan (current science suggests it’s not massive enough to supernova).
In other news, though, it is known that red dwarf stars are decidedly more common in our galaxy than other types, and we have since found evidence of planets orbiting such stars, with a number within the right areas to possibly have the needed conditions to support life.
We, of course, still can’t know for sure if any actually CAN support life, or how many on average we could reasonably expect them to. But given the odds as we currently understand them, it’s not outside the realm of possibility. So, yes, you theoretically could have a planet in a system matching that of Krypton’s description, though how good the odds of that are, I couldn’t say (probably not that high though).
Whether or not that planet is populated by a race of people advanced enough to have interstellar travel who also gain miraculous superpowers when in the vicinity of a powerful enough of a star…that’s another story.
ars731 over 4 years ago
One of the verisons of Superman come from an future earth that had an red sun and the explosion send him into the past. Its called Red Son and is very good.