Stars, much like humans, go through different stages of life, from birth through middle age through senescence. At the moment, our solar system s sun is in its yellow dwarf stage of life essentially middle age for a star of its class.But that won t always be the case. Earth s sun is about 4.5 bill.
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Astronomers have discovered a giant planet orbiting a dead star, which they say could resemble our solar system when the Sun dies out in approximately 5 billion years.
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