What does the future hold for us as a planet? It is a question that has many theories and after decades of advances in scientific research, many certainties. Astronomers and experts in studies of the universe they have determined what will happen, not only with the Earth, but with our Solar System.
The energy from the Sun that we see every morning, although it seems like an inexhaustible source, has finite resources. In matters of time we would have nothing to worry about, because we are talking about millions of years. But the truth is that there is an end to our massive star.
To find out what will happen to the little corner of the universe we occupy, Scientists at the University of Warwick in the UKhave observed nearby stars, some 90 light-years away, that reveal to us the tragic future of the Solar System.
Stars that already exhausted their resources, ran out of energy or fuel, were surrounded by dead planets, which could well be like the Land. That, according to experts, is the possible future of the Earth, review Urban Techno.
Why don’t they confirm it? They need further study to certify that any of these dying worlds are rocky like Earth.
The life of these massive stars
According to the general theory of our scientists, the Sun should be 4.603 billion years old. The two stars seen by researchers at the University of Warwick calculate that the two stars seen are over 10 trillion years old.
They are, so far, the oldest planetary debris found by science, according to the portal Phys.org.
“We are finding the oldest stellar remnants in the Milky Way, which are contaminated by planets that were similar to Earth. It’s incredible to think that this happened on a 10 trillion year scale, and that these planets died before Earth formed,” said Abbigail Elms, lead author of the study.
They were identified as WDJ2147-4035 and WDJ1922+023. The two stars were detected with the help of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) GAIA Space Observatory. In both cases they are consumed by the metal and in one of them they registered the presence of sodium, lithium, potassium and carbon.