A newly discovered exoplanet orbiting a white dwarf offers hope that Earth might survive the Sun's red giant phase in billions of years.
Astronomers have discovered a distant white dwarf with an Earth-like planet orbiting just beyond where Mars is in our solar system . This discovery offers some reassurance that Earth could survive the Sun's red giant phase on its way to becoming a white dwarf in about 8 billion years.\The exoplanet orbits its star, which is about half the mass of our Sun, at a distance roughly twice that of Earth today.
The system resembles what our solar system is expected to become once the Sun has exhausted its fuel and explodes as a supernova. This finding provides valuable insight into how planets fare as their stars reach the end of their life cycle.\The research team, led by former UC Berkeley doctoral student now at UC San Diego, includes colleagues from various institutions like UC Berkeley, Tsinghua University, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Their findings were published in the journal [Journal Name]
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