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'Dirty' stars hint at Sun's future

Scientists have studied two dead stars that give us a glimpse, they say, of what our Solar System might look like a few billion years from now.
Our Sun will expand outwards when its nuclear fuel runs low and will ultimately blow off its outer layers.
Some of the inner planets will be consumed in the process and asteroids will be thrown out of their orbits.
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Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris

Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid debris is 'raining' into the hot atmospheres of these white dwarfs. Asteroids should consist of the same material that form terrestrial planets, and seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system.
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