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  1. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☀️🌍 For decades, scientists assumed #Earth would spiral into the #Sun when it swells into a red giant billions of years from now.

    A new study flips that prediction. Better modeling of tidal dissipation inside dying #stars finds that the Sun’s mass loss from stellar wind may push Earth outward, potentially saving it from incineration.

    👉 phys.org/news/2026-06-sun-engu

    #redgiant #solardeath #astronomy #astrophysics #science #kuleuven #belgium #ceaparis #france #planets #whitedwarf #science

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: ☀️🌍 For decades, scientists assumed #Earth would spiral into the #Sun when it swells into a red giant billions of years from now.

    A new study from flips that prediction. Better modeling of tidal dissipation inside dying #stars finds that the Sun’s mass loss from stellar wind may push Earth outward, potentially saving it from incineration.

    👉 phys.org/news/2026-06-sun-engu

    #redgiant #solardeath #astronomy #astrophysics #science #kuleuven #belgium #ceaparis #france #planets #whitedwarf #science

  3. Beautiful cover arts for the latest issues of Nature and Nature Astronomy

    Credits:
    1. Erik Wernquist/Dylan Nelson (IllustrisTNG Collaboration)/Martijn Oei
    2. Carl Knox, OzGrav - Swinburne University of Technology. Cover design: Bethany Vukomanovic

    #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Nature #NatureAstronomy #cover #art #covertart #Porphyrion #SMBH #blackhole #blackholes #Cosmology #CosmicWeb #Universe #pulsar #pulsars #ASKAP #radiotelescope #NeutronStar #WhiteDwarf #star #stars #science #STEM #Astrodon