One day our sun will solidify into a giant crystal orb
by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times
Jan 11, 2019
3 minutes
Our sun and billions of stars just like it are headed for a strange, cold destiny.
New research suggests that long after our roiling, boiling life-giving star runs out of fuel it will slowly form a cold, dead, super-dense crystal sphere about the size of the Earth that will linger like a translucent tombstone for close to eternity.
"In tens of billions of years from now the universe will be made largely of dense crystal spheres," said Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, an astrophysicist
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