Thursday, December 22, 2011

Exoplanets Spotted Orbiting Dead Star

Five billion years from now... oh fuck it, I need a drink.

Sobering up now, this "dead star" is really a white dwarf, isn't it?
Time scales become truly mind-boggling when, after eons as a white dwarf, the nuclear reaction peters out, the "ember" still emitting heat for eons upon eons.

If the proton decays, when the last white dwarf goes out, around 10^14 years from now, the Universe passes from the Stelliferous Era to the Degenerate Era, everything slowly cooling down, matter slowly disintegrating or being su

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/uyWNuloPpZM/exoplanets-spotted-orbiting-dead-star

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