The next time you look up at the night sky, think about this: For every star you see there are at least as many stars just as close to us that we can't see. These red dwarfs are just so dim we can't see them with our eyes. They are the stars with longest lives - many of them are older than our own star and will still be here long after it is gone. Also, of the stars we can see with our eyes, most of them are actually two or three stars orbiting each other so tightly you can't tell them apart from so far away.
When I think about this, it makes me think about how we can't trust everything we see. There's a lot out there that remains unseen, unspoken, but not unknown.
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