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Earth-size stars and alien oceans – an astronomer explains the case for life around white dwarfs

  • Written by Juliette Becker, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageWhite dwarf stars, like this one shown shrouded by a planetary nebula, are much smaller than stars like our Sun.NASA/R. Ciardullo (PSU)/H. Bond (STScI)

The Sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the Sun is often thought...

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