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The Sun is still young in space years. It is just 4.6 billion years old. This means it is only around one into its lifespan. Professor Albert Zijlstra, a from the University of Manchester, explained what happens at the of a star's life. He said: "When a star dies, it ejects a of gas and dust into space....This reveals the star's core. By this point in the star's , it is running out of fuel." He said it eventually turns off and dies. Professor Zijlstra was that modern science can calculate the age of and what will happen to them. He said we can measure the of stars in distant galaxies, and "we have found out what the Sun will do when it dies".

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