Can there be life next to a white dwarf?
Source:the fate of the white dwarf sooner or later awaits our Sun.
When the life of the stars is coming to its logical conclusion, it before you die finally shows the real space shows, then decreasing, then increasing in size. Held monitor similar to the Sun stars show that in approximately 5 billion years our star will expand into a red giant, which is almost close to the Ground, absorbing and Venus. After the ritual of the “cosmic cannibalism”, the Sun completely throw off the outer shell into space, surrounding your core — a future white dwarf — . But what will happen then? Whether any hypothetical life to arise on the ruins of the Solar system?
Life with white dwarf
As mentioned above, white dwarfs — the remains of a small star, the mass of which was not enough to become a neutron star or a black hole. It is known that the nearest white dwarf to our is the star Sirius b, which is from us at a distance of 8.6 light years. Despite the fact that in the area Sirius was not found In any planetologie objects, scientists believe that life next to the exposed core of a red giant it may well appear due to much greater longevity of such a small object even compared to our Sun. Researchers believe that potentially habitable planet, illuminated by the light of a white dwarf must be to its star at a distance 100 times smaller than the Earth to the Sun. But how could there be a habitable world at such a small distance, if the turbulent past of the red giant, which until recently could have a seemingly harmless white dwarf was supposed to absorb most of their own planets? The fact that the destruction surrounding a particular star object, the dust remains may eventually form so-called the planet's “second generation” who are able to migrate to a white dwarf after its occurrence. It is known that most of the detected white dwarfs contain large amounts of heavy materials that may indicate the presence of rocky planets orbiting their miniature stars.
On planets near a white dwarf can be life
For the First time the likely existence of exoplanets orbiting the star — the white dwarf was confirmed in 2018, when in orbit of a dwarf star J122859.93+104032.9 were found unique object, subsequently recognized as the core of the former planet. From complete collapse it could protect a special composition, which includes a large amount of iron and Nickel. Study found “the planet” will soon be able telescope “James Webb”, which will be able to evaluate the possibility of the existence of at least simple life on the objects orbiting white dwarfs. Despite the fact that the worlds of this type are constantly exposed to a massive dose of x-ray or ultraviolet radiation, the researchers believe that the likelihood of finding earth-like planets close to dwarf stars can be estimated as 1:500, which, incidentally, represents a very good result.
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