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The first sign was a shiver in the sun. Not a flare. Not a storm. Just a measurable, deliberate chill. Solar physicists stared at their instruments in disbelief. “The Sun’s effective temperature just dropped by half a percent,” muttered Dr. Liyun Takahashi of the Solar Dynamics Observatory, sipping her now-lukewarm coffee. “That’s... impossible.” Except it wasn’t. Within a week, Earth’s average temperature stabilized to pre-industrial levels. Coral reefs began to bleach back

Introduction: The Paradox of Abundance and Silence As astronomical instruments become ever more sensitive, we find ourselves living in a universe more crowded than imagination had previously allowed.The Kepler Space Telesco pe alone revealed that nearly every star in our galaxy likely hosts planets. Statistical models now estimate tens of billions of Earth-like planets within the Milky Way and trillions across the observable universe . If we assume that even a minute fractio