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Age Sun predicted only 5 billion years from now, Mother. This stems from the discovery that a Jupiter-sized planet has been found orbiting a white dwarf star in the Milky Way galaxy.
It provides clues about what will happen in our solar system when the sun finally dies.
An international team of astronomers observed the phenomenon, which forms when a star runs out of nuclear fuel to burn, and dies.
Then, what about our solar system after the sun dies? Possibility Earth would be affected, but Jupiter endured, Mother.
These are the predictions of a number of astronomers published in the journal Nature using examples with similar events in other solar systems, quoted from CNet.
The team of astronomers saw a distant planet, a gas giant with a mass 1.4 times Jupiter, able to survive the death of its host star.
Scientists say the discovery fits with previous calculations that more than half of white dwarfs may have similar giant planets orbiting them. Although the phenomenon had been predicted, it had never been observed before.
“We estimate the planet has a distance (from the white dwarf) between 2.5 and six times Earth’s distance from the sun, which is similar to Earth’s distance from the Sun. Jupiter,” said lead author Joshua Blackman, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tasmania Australia. reported Guardian.
Blackman said the discovery explains what will happen when the sun runs out of fuel.
“This is the first time we have discovered … a system that resembles what we expect to happen to our solar system in five or six billion years.”
Blackman said, given that this system is analogous to our own solar system, it suggests that Jupiter and Saturn may have survived the sun’s red giant phase when it ran out of nuclear fuel and self-destructed.
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