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Old 07-12-2022, 10:00 PM   #260
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Originally Posted by Old Yeller View Post
I watched Nova last week about stars - Trappist-1 will burn for a very long time, while the universe goes dark:

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TRAPPIST-1 is expected to shine for ten trillion years—about 700 times longer than the present age of the Universe—while the Sun will leave the main sequence (run out of hydrogen[i]) in a few billion years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPI...period_and_age

Also, the planets there are likely tidally locked. Might be “lousy” for life:

https://www.futurity.org/trappist-1-...-zone-2040722/

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