Sunday, March 27, 2011

Msnbc.com: Technology & Science

Don't rule out life on those 'dead stars' just yet

 

An artist's impression of the Sirius star system. Sirus A is the bright main-sequence, hydrogen-burning star, left, and is orbited by Sirus B, among the most massive white dwarfs known, with a mass similar to that of our sun, yet all that matter is packed into a similar volume to that of Earth.Astronomers say that even the faint remnants of sunlike stars, known as white dwarfs, could harbor livable planets.

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