Earth to be swallowed by Sun in a few billion years, claims study

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Life exists on Earth thanks to our parent star – the Sun. But what happens when this mighty celestial body reaches the end of its life?

Clumps of debris from a disrupted planetesimal are irregularly spaced on a long and eccentric orbit around the white dwarf.

“For the rest of the solar system, some of the asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter, and maybe some of the moons of Jupiter may get dislodged and travel close enough to the eventual white dwarf to undergo the shredding process we have investigated,” Gaensicke mentioned in the press release. The researchers examined changes in the brightness of stars for over 17 years, revealing the “chaotic” and “disorderly” behavior of these disrupted bodies.

 

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