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(The recording was adapted from recently taken material, with simplified editing retained. Apologies for the late publication and the poor technical quality of the sound track in the discussion section.) What does the average star look like? Certainly not like our Sun! A typical star is small, red and wild! Get to know red dwarfs and their planets - both discovered and hypothetical. Are they just chunks of dry rock or balls of hot vapor and gas, or could they resemble Earth? Lecturer: Tomáš Petrásek, born in 1984 in Prague, studied biology at the Faculty of Science, UK, currently works at the Institute of Physiology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the National Institute of Mental Health, where he deals with brain and behavior research. In his free time, he is dedicated to popularizing astronomy and astrobiology. He is the author of the popular science series Distant Worlds (together with Igor Duszko), dealing with the issue of exobiology, and the website of the same name. He entered the field of science fiction with the novella Posledni hlídka (in the anthology Newt 2007, published separately in 2012) and the short stories Tvůrci (Kočas 2009) and The Benson Effect (in the anthology Terra Nullius, 2015). Further information: www.patecnici.net www.facebook.com/patecnici.cyklus Support for the Fridays project: https://www.startovac.cz/patron/vasi-...