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How Long Before The Sun Dies?Despite explosions like this one, the Sun is very stable, something key to our existance, but that wont last forever.

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How Long Before The Sun Dies?Despite explosions like this one, the Sun is very stable, something key to our existance, but that wont last forever.
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How Long Before The Sun Dies?

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A Zombie Sun May One Day Tear The Earth ApartAn artist's impression of debris passing in front of a white dwarf as a result of a planet, asteroid or moon being ripped apart by its extreme gravitational field

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A Zombie Sun May One Day Tear The Earth ApartAn artist's impression of debris passing in front of a white dwarf as a result of a planet, asteroid or moon being ripped apart by its extreme gravitational field
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A Zombie Sun May One Day Tear The Earth Apart

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This Year Could Be A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To See A Nova Artist's impression of T Coronae Borealis part way through brightening as the white dwarf ignites material drawn from the red giant.

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This Year Could Be A Once In A Lifetime Opportunity To See A Nova Artist's impression of T Coronae Borealis part way through brightening as the white dwarf ignites material drawn from the red giant.
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For The First Time, A Star Has Been Caught Devouring Its PlanetThis artist’s impression shows a doomed planet skimming the surface of its star. Astronomers used a combination of telescopes to spot the first direct evidence of an aging, bloated sun-like star, like the one pictured here, engulfing its planet.

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For The First Time, A Star Has Been Caught Devouring Its PlanetThis artist’s impression shows a doomed planet skimming the surface of its star. Astronomers used a combination of telescopes to spot the first direct evidence of an aging, bloated sun-like star, like the one pictured here, engulfing its planet.
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For The First Time, A Star Has Been Caught Devouring Its Planet

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Scientists Just Took A Picture Of Another Star In Stunning Detailarticle image

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Scientists Just Took A Picture Of Another Star In Stunning Detail

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Stellar Sibling Kills Its Companion, Prematurely Hastening Transformation To White Dwarfarticle image

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Stellar Sibling Kills Its Companion, Prematurely Hastening Transformation To White Dwarfarticle image
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Stellar Sibling Kills Its Companion, Prematurely Hastening Transformation To White Dwarf

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Adorable Moss Piglets Will Still Be Here In 10 Billion Years Time, Even If Nothing Else Isarticle image

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Adorable Moss Piglets Will Still Be Here In 10 Billion Years Time, Even If Nothing Else Isarticle image
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Adorable Moss Piglets Will Still Be Here In 10 Billion Years Time, Even If Nothing Else Is

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This Is The Coldest Place In The Universe – And Now We Know Whyarticle image

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This Is The Coldest Place In The Universe – And Now We Know Whyarticle image
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This Is The Coldest Place In The Universe – And Now We Know Why

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Hubble Has Photographed A Giant Among Giantsarticle image
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Hubble Has Photographed A Giant Among Giants

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This Star Is Shooting Super-Heated Blobs Of Plasma Twice The Size Of Mars Into Spacearticle image

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This Star Is Shooting Super-Heated Blobs Of Plasma Twice The Size Of Mars Into Spacearticle image
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This Star Is Shooting Super-Heated Blobs Of Plasma Twice The Size Of Mars Into Space

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Failed Supernova Forms Black Hole Without Explosionarticle image

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Failed Supernova Forms Black Hole Without Explosionarticle image
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Failed Supernova Forms Black Hole Without Explosion

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Some Stars Are Dying Puzzlingly Youngarticle image
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Some Stars Are Dying Puzzlingly Young

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Scientists Reveal How Humanity Could Survive The End Of The World

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Youngest Supernova In Milky Way Created By Catastrophic Collision Of Two White Dwarfsarticle image

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Youngest Supernova In Milky Way Created By Catastrophic Collision Of Two White Dwarfsarticle image
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Youngest Supernova In Milky Way Created By Catastrophic Collision Of Two White Dwarfs

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Supernova Burning Its Nearby Companion Star Observed By Astronomers For The First Timearticle image

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Supernova Burning Its Nearby Companion Star Observed By Astronomers For The First Timearticle image
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Supernova Burning Its Nearby Companion Star Observed By Astronomers For The First Time

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