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I also always get confused with red dwarfs and red giants, about time I educated myself:
Red dwarfs are main sequence (i.e. in the prime of their life) stars that are small, and reddish.
Red giants are old stars, and what will become of our Sun.
This chart helped: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution#/media/Fil...
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I also always get confused with red dwarfs and red giants, about time I educated myself:
Red dwarfs are main sequence (i.e. in the prime of their life) stars that are small, and reddish.
Red giants are old stars, and what will become of our Sun.
This chart helped: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_evolution#/media/Fil...