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Stunning Nebula Image Predicts How the Sun Will Die
Original: A Stunning Nebula Image Predicts How Our Sun Will Die https://nautil.us/a-stunning-nebula-image-predicts-how-our-sun-wil
Nautilus has published a piece pairing a striking image of a nebula with an explanation of what it reveals about the Sun's eventual death. The article uses the glowing clouds of shed stellar material to illustrate how the Sun, in roughly five billion years, is expected to swell into a red giant and cast off its outer layers, leaving behind a planetary nebula and a white dwarf.
Why now: The striking nebula imagery and the personal stakes of our own star's fate make the astronomy story highly shareable.
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- A Stunning Nebula Image Predicts How Our Sun Will Die https://nautil.us/a-stunning-nebula-image-predicts-how-our-sun-will-die-1285851/ # Science # Astronomy # Space · nautilus@robot.villas · 3
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