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From KenCroswell.com:<br /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>The closer a red dwarf is to the plane of our Galaxy, the more likely it is to sport magnetic activity such as spots and flares, say astronomers in the United States. Furthermore, the activity persists for the first 6 to 7 billion years of the star's life, then rapidly declines, at least for those red dwarfs with spectral type M7.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote>