Polluted Dead Star Indicates Planets Like Earth May Have Formed Around Other Stars, Astronomers Report

The chemical fingerprint of a burned-out star indicates that Earth-like planets may not be rare in the universe and could give clues to what our solar system will look like when our sun dies and becomes a white dwarf star some five billion years from now.

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