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Collision between sun and white dwarf
author: Don Dixon/Novapix
reference: a-exo99-30015
Image Size 300 DPI: 21 * 31 cm
Artist's impression of the final minutes of our sun's life as a white dwarf approaches it. As tidal forces stretch the sun into a pear-shape, the delicate balance between gravity and radiation pressure fails, and the sun ruptures. The energy released as the two stars merge would vaporize the earth.
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