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Wow, that's...intense. All life as we know it burning up in 5 mil. years. Stars are complex! The smaller the white dwarf, the more mass? That doesn't even make any sense. Brown dwarfs are fascinating, though. So are red dwarfs. The fact that red dwarfs could be the key to finding life on other planets is so cool! Stars are awesome, but very confusing.
OMG! THIS IS SO SCARY! WE DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO DIE! EVEN IN 5 BILLION YEARS! AND WE WON'T BE THERE TO SHOO THE SUN AWAY!!! NOOOOOOOO!!! (even if this doesn't happen, we're still scared) On a serious note, we think this is interesting. We didn't know that the sun could shrink and turn into a white dwarf star. We didn't even know they existed!
This article was very interesting, i did some research and i found the planet they were talking about on a program on my computer, the planet was in the gliese 581 solar system and its name was c, I hope it does support life! I hope my great great great... great grandchildren aren't killed by the sun! is it that the smaller the star is the more condensed it is, so it weighs more? Its hard to imagine how unpredictable our universe is.
I think that we have studied stars for only ten's of years but we have already catagerized stars.
I wonder if the human race will be able to evacuate Earth before the sun swallows it up. Or, if after the human race has been destroyed along with Earth, Mars will be able to support life and if Martians will undergo the same process of evolution as humans before, eventually, dieing out. Or if when the sun shrinks, it relinquishes its grip on earth, and alien explorers will investigate it, and find the remants of our species (if any). Who knows? There are infinite possibilities.
That was cool. Red giant's are so cool, there's one called Antarus and the sun is one pixel compared to it. They didn't mention black holes though. It happens when a lot of fusion occurs and the atoms become very dense. Then it's own mass and density collapses on itself created a black hole. Supernova happen when the sun explodes and vaporizes the entire solar system. When the sun is about to absorb the Earth though, mankind will probably have found a way to get around it. And brown dwarfs are pretty cool, only having enough mass to create a infrared light, no wonder I've never seen one.
Boy is this article boring but the pictures are awesome! I did catch an interesting part of the article that I did fish out. That such a giant ball of heat and light such as the sun could explode in eons and turn into an itty bitty white dwarf star, giving us nothing near what the sun did give us. Also I thought the sun's life was more like 8,000,000,000 years left, not 5,000,000,000 because that is what my mom told me and I thought she was actually right but now that I have read this article, i know that she was off by about 3,000,000,000 years.
That's creepy... I wouldn't want the human race to be destroyed!!!... well, I don't think anyone would. I watched a show on TV showing some ways we could possibly die out. One idea was that glaciers would swallow many of the biggest cities. IE New York, Chicago, Seattle, etc. Another was mentioned in this article: The sun growing into a giant, and swallowing up planets, like Earth. One of the scarier ones was that once becoming a white dwarf, the sun would blow up. On the positive side, maybe in the time before this catastrophe, we could improve our technology, so we could live on other planets. Sort of sci-fi, but it could be a possibility. I read about living on other planets such as Mars, and even Jupiter's moons, in a book called *italics here* 3001 The Final Odyssey *end italics*. It was very interesting, and I would definitely recommend the book. Anyway, I thought this article was really interesting, but I didn't get the title of "The most popular stars". I didn't get it because that's the author's opinion. Things are only popular to those who think they are. IE if someone studied Earth, they could think Earth was more popular than Mars, but if someone studied Mars, they could think Mars was more popular than Earth. So basically, the title is opinionated. The stars were considered popular by the author because he took the opinion of those who found their star "popular". Another author could have used the exact information in this article and titled it "The Least Popular Stars". Sorry if I made this long and confusing, but I think some titles can be misleading and opinionated.
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