Astronomers call the moon the first victim of the “Death Star” – REGNUM

Washington, April 10, 2016, 17:47 – REGNUM

in a few billion years the Sun will turn into a “death Star” and destroy the moon, according to the report of scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics and the University of Warwick. There will also be completely destroyed Mercury and Venus. The same fate is likely to befall the Earth and Mars. The full study is published at arXiv.org.

The astronomers studied the influence on the content of heavy elements in the atmosphere of white dwarfs, in which over time become a star like the sun, the satellites of the planets orbiting the stars. About a quarter of these stars are polluted fragments from rotating around the disc, consisting of fragments of planetary bodies.

According to scientists, you need about a million years to space around the white dwarf has acquired satellite fragments and planets, and equal to the weight, such as Pluto. This debris falling onto the star, resulting in a change in its observed spectrum.

According to the researchers, after billions of years the Sun will become a red giant and engulf Mercury, Venus, in addition, it can absorb and the Earth to Mars.

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