This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

[Waspie_Dwarf]

This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now

Existence of Earth-like planet around dead sun offers hope for our planet's ultimate survival

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The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one possible fate for our planet billions of years in the future, when the sun has turned into a white dwarf, and a blasted and frozen Earth has migrated beyond the orbit of Mars.

This distant planetary system, identified by University of California, Berkeley, astronomers after observations with the Keck 10-meter telescope in Hawaii, looks very similar to expectations for the sun-Earth system: it consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of the sun and an Earth-size companion in an orbit twice as large as Earth’s today.

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[jethrofloyd]

It would be best if we moved a whole Earth there,  we almost destroyed this one anyway.