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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

Stars Like Our Sun May Still Support Life After They Die. There's Just One Problem.

www.sciencealert.com

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Stars Like Our Sun May Still Support Life After They Die. There's Just One Problem.

www.sciencealert.com

Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Astronomy@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago
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Astronomers have found plenty of white dwarf stars surrounded by debris disks.
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    Saving you a click: Sun like stars turn into a red giant which is hard to live near and destroys nearby planets. After that red giants turn into white dwarfs which are possible to survive near but normally there aren’t any planets left to live on.

    The article is about them discovering a jupiter size planet around a white dwarf

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      Thanks. I didn’t want to click the bait.

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      Thanks. If anybody is interested, I saved this article about said planet. It does, imho, a good job of going a bit deeper into the paper without beeing to technical (speaking from a lay persons perspective)

      https://www.universetoday.com/154536/planet-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-a-white-dwarf/

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