You certainly won’t live long enough to watch the Sun die.
But if humans are around several billion years from now, they’ll have to find a way to survive an inevitable catastrophe.
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Our Sun is currently in its main sequence stage of life but will hit its red giant stage in approximately 5 billion years.
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Scientists recently observed a system that looks a lot like our own, only at a different place in its life cycle: its main star is a cold, dead white dwarf.
These findings were published in Nature on October 13.
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And a planet orbiting around the white dwarf is likely to be a gas giant similar in profile to Jupiter, only 40 percent more massive.