CM Draconis (follow up to Adam's Red Dwarf)
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Regarding the tidal lock of planets facing a Red Dwarf, the CM Draconis system is interesting. Two Red Dwarfs orbiting each other in a day and a half, a dozen degrees apart in the sky, total output 1% of our sun. Unlike other red dwarf tidal locked planets where land shaded by a hill NEVER get light for photosynthethis, on a planet in this habitable zone, there would be some variation as the stars orbit each other every day and a half. A habitible planet would circle the pair in about a month.
I'm now convinced that formerly "uninteresting" M type stars might have flourishing ecosystems.
