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36. Mapping the Heavens | Priya Natarajan

The After On Podcast

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The Point of No Return

The event horizon is the region within which, once anything with matter, even light, gets inthe no way out. This helped me understand why it's not going to continually feed on stars - they're not 30 million miles from each other. So i think your birth determines your destiny for stars. And so our sun is going to go there in about five billion years. Once it becomes a white dwarf, i cooling and cooling. These are cinders, in a sense, and they'll be cooling forever, thee ever, very long time scales. They're going to outlive anything in the universe, sitting there cooling away. Meriad of times. How far beyond dis gett

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