🌠 Our Sun Will Turn into a Pure Crystal Ball Before It Dies

In a process not unlike human aging, most stars entering the final chapter of their lives tend to shrink, shrivel and slowly turn white. Astronomers call these cold, dense husks of once-mighty stars white dwarfs and, unlike humans, their dotage can last for billions of years. In that time, stars with masses between about a tenth and eight times the mass of our sun burn up the last of their nuclear energy, shed their fiery outer layers and dwindle into ultracompact cores that pack about a sun's-worth of mass into a planet-size package. While this might sound like an unglamorous ending for a star, a new study published in January 2019 claims that white dwarfhood may be just the start of a beautiful new metamorphosis... There’s more to say, more to explore together and we invite you now to join this new journey with us on Section 51 ! Subscribe now ! You can find our Section 51's official T-shirts & stuff here : https://shop.spreadshirt.com/section51/ - DOZgeek https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFR2... - Blackdevil https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfA_... - Twitter : https://twitter.com/section_51 - Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/UFOatSection51/ Music • Bush Week by Nihilore (under Creative Commons) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAlq59rG5-k http://www.nihilore.com • Ambient Music { Floating in Space } (royalty free music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLWDAJXM8Q • Ansia Orchestra - Through the Space [Ambient] (royalty free music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZYYb... Music provided by: MFY - No Copyright • No Copyright Ambient Music - Space Chatter - by JSE2013 (royalty free music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5MMm... • Royalty Free Music Space Ambient Fantasy - The Cosmos - by Ron Buser (royalty free music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySX1k... Visit the Greenvault store which is our new partner. Support their work https://greenvault.studio/ #sun #whitedwarf #crystal #gaia