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A gentle puff, not a blast

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Eventually the Sun sighs out its outer layers into space in soft, glowing clouds of gas. This beautiful cloud is called a planetary nebula — even though it has nothing to do with planets, it just looked round and planet-like to old astronomers through their telescopes.

It's calm and slow, not a bang. Think of it less like a firework and more like a giant, glowing smoke ring drifting into the dark.

STAGE 5

All chapters in How the Sun Says Goodbye

  1. The Sun runs low on fuel
  2. The Sun swells into a red giant
  3. The far planets are left alone
  4. A gentle puff, not a blast
  5. What's left: a white dwarf
  6. Cooling into a black dwarf