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Death of a Star

Take a good look at the picture of this nebula, this is how our solar system will look like in about 5 billion years or so. NGC 2371's glowing bubble of gas surrounding a white dwarf is a planetary nebula probably resulted in the explosion of an average star, relatively similar to the Sun. All that is left of the original central body is the core of the red giant after the ejection of the outer layers. The white dwarf remnant burns with a temperature of 133,315 degrees Celsius and is locate... Read »
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