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Doomed Planets Around Dead Stars Can 'Broadcast' Their Woes for a Billion Years
The surviving cores of planets orbiting dead stars emit radio waves that scientists can detect from Earth for up to a billion years, one new study has found. Stars become white dwarfs when they've exhausted all of their fuel and shed their outer layers, essentially "dying." When these stars die, they typically destroy nearby objects and destroy the outer layers of the planets that orbit them.
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