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Africa-Press – Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>When stars run out of their fuel and die, they often burn out and turn into white dwarfs – the remains of the stellar core, that consists mostly of electron-degenerate matter.<\/p>\n

There could be a habitable planet in the vicinity of a white star observed by scientists from UCL, who spotted a ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures orbiting close to the dead star.<\/p>\n

The findings raise hopes that humans will find a planet with life in the so-called “habitable” zone, where liquid water – and therefore life – can exist.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that the discovered bodies could display an evenly-spaced orbital pattern because of the nearby planet’s gravitation. Without such influence from a possible planet, the structures would be dispersed, and the scientists would observe no regularity. A similar pattern of gravitational influence can be observed in the case of Neptune and Saturn – their “shepherding” help stabilising the ring structures around them.<\/p>\n

The scientific team has suggested that the orbit of the white dwarf was swept clear at the time when the dwarf was a giant star. This would indicate that the emergence of a habitable planet would be a recent development. If that’s the case, the area would be habitable for at least least two billion years.<\/p>\n

Our Sun is among those stars which will at some point “die” by becoming a white dwarf in a few billion years. Therefore, Farihi noted, the new UCL study has somewhat provided a glimpse into the future of our own solar system.<\/p>\n

A “white dwarf” is the end result of a star running out of hydrogen; first it expands, turning into a red giant, until nothing except the stellar core remains, then it slowly cools down over billions of years.<\/p>\n

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