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WHEN THE SUN DIES. “But when the stars died, they vaporized or engulfed and incinerated their inner planets, leaving only the bodies that resided in the chilly outposts. Over time, the dwarfs shredded and consumed many of the survivors as well. These decimated systems offer a grim look at the fate of our own solar system when the sun dies five billion years from now.” https://lnkd.in/dpMBcCM View in LinkedIn

MIRROR EARTHS. “There are more than a dozen white dwarfs in our galaxy that are orbited by asteroids, comets and perhaps even planets -- entire graveyards of worlds. While the stars were alive, they rose every day in the skies of these worlds. They gently warmed the soil and stirred the wind. Living organisms may have soaked up their rays.” https://lnkd.in/dpMBcCM View in LinkedIn

“WHITE DWARFS must not be stars so much as the corpses of stars. Each white dwarf was once much like our sun and shone with the same brilliance. But then it began to run out of fuel and entered its stormy death throes, swelling to 100 times its previous size and brightening 10,000 fold, before shedding its outer laters and shriveling to a glowing cinder the size of Earth. For the rest of eternity, it will sit inertly, slowly fading to blackness.” https://lnkd.in/dpMBcCM View in LinkedIn

DEATH OF A STAR. “Once the nuclear fuel is entirely burnt out, there remains no sufficient pressure to resist the attractive force of gravity, consequently, the star experiences the stellar death, a phenomenon known as gravitational collapse.” https://lnkd.in/dnMiFPu View in LinkedIn

THE REAL ROOTS. “Space is a violent place, strewn with galaxies that have cannibalized each other to survive. Some of these survivors are galactic fossils, revealing glimpses of the past because they formed in the early universe.” https://lnkd.in/dVQCih6 View in LinkedIn

A profusion of ephemeral spring violets and birdsong. View in LinkedIn

PSYCHOANALYSIS “has further taught us that our intellect is a feeble and dependent thing, a plaything and tool of our instincts and affects, and that we are all compelled to behave cleverly or stupidly according to the commands of our [emotional] attitudes and internal resistances.” (Freud). https://lnkd.in/dawKbt4 View in LinkedIn

THEORY CRITICAL. “In general, one cannot observe the dense matter directly, but the observations of stellar properties like mass, radius and cooling behaviour have to be interpreted using theoretical models in order to constrain the equation of state of stellar matter. In order to calculate strong interaction matter relevant for compact stars as well as heavy-ion physics we have developed and studied hadronic and hadron-quark models within the so-called chiral mean field (CMF) approach.” https://lnkd.in/dGXZSrf View in LinkedIn

PHYSICS = ASTRONOMY. “Studying the phase structure of hot and dense strongly interacting matter is central to many experimental and theoretical efforts in modern nuclear physics. As a complement to a range of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collision experiments targeting in particular hot matter, the environment of neutron stars samples high-density matter at very low temperature.” https://lnkd.in/dGXZSrf View in LinkedIn