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The cosmos is littered with blue and red stars... but curiously no green ones. Why? Is this a fundamental constraint or merely an unlikely outcome? And what would it mean for humanity if we ever did detect a green star? Join us today as we explore this simple question with major implications.

Written & presented by Prof David Kipping

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::Music::
Music licensed via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

► Brad Hill - Of Love and Loss [https://open.spotify.com/album/2oDAnU...]
► Joachim Heinrich - Cassiopeia
► Falls - Life in Binary
► Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Five
► Falls - Ripley
► Indive - Trace Correction

::Film/TV clips used::
► Contact (1997) - Warner Bros. Pictures
► Avengers: Endgame (2019) - Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

::Chapters::
00:00 Prologue
00:59 The Dearth of Green Stars
05:25 Sponsorship
06:28 The Blackbody Approximation
10:51 Entering the Multiverse
13:04 The Viridian Flash
14:46 A Green Technosignature
18:37 Concluding Remarks
19:27 Outro and credits

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