Death Of A Star
It is interesting to note that in the NIRCAM photo, you can see only one star. And you can see the cloud clearly. But in the MIRI Cam photo, the cloud is quite muted, and you can clearly see the two stars. As we explained, because of the longer wavelength, we can see the center of the dense cloud.
If this is the first time you’re hearing about stars dying, shocking, isn’t it? We’d like to tell you that similar to the life cycle of humans, childhood, teenage, adulthood, old age, and then death, similarly, stars have a life cycle too.
Our Sun is a star as well. It is quite young now. About 5 billion years later, Our Sun will become a Red Giant. After becoming a Red Giant, it too will go through the same stages that these stars are going through in this photo. It’ll become a planetary nebula. After which it’ll be a White Dwarf, and then The End.
Red Giants are bigger in size than an average star, when our Sun will turn into a Red Giant, it will swallow the planets of Venus and Mercury. And Earth will no longer have living conditions. But do not worry, humans have 5 billion years to discover some technology which can push back Earth’s orbit.
