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Sun may end as white dwarf star

Guardian Unlimited: Astronomers have captured a vision of the cataclysmic fate which awaits our solar system in about five billion years' time. Observation of a star system some 450m light years from Earth has revealed all that remains of a planetary system located around a star that was once eight times the size of our Sun.

Posted by Jenny Corrado on December 22, 2006 10:36 AM |

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