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How will the sun die? A new study has some ideas
One day our sun will die.
About 10 billion years from now, our nearest star will run out of its stellar fuel, effectively marking the end of its life in space.
Ok, but then what happens?
According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers may have a new understanding of exactly what will become of the sun after it reaches the end of its life.
Effectively, the study suggests that the star will become what’s known as a planetary nebula, a mass of gas and dust.
“When a star dies it ejects a mass of gas and dust – known as its envelope – into space. The envelope can be as much as half the star’s mass,” astronomer Albert Zijlstra, one of the authors of the new study, said in a statement. Read more…
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