Tag: Star life cycle
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A Glimpse Into the Earth’s Future Demise: Death at the Hands of Its Creator
Some may find it poetic that the Sun from which Earth originated 4.5 billion years ago will likely consume the planet five billion years from now (Clery, 2023), as the star becomes a white dwarf. The Zwicky Transient Facility, or ZTF, is a wide-field camera attached to the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory…