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Ben Turner

Astronomers spot a possible 'future Earth' — 8 billion years into its future

An artist's illustration of Earth and the moon orbiting a white dwarf star.

Astronomers have discovered a distant planet that has offered them a rare glimpse of what our planet may look like 8 billion years in the future.

The planet, called KMT-2020-BLG-0414 and located 4,000 light-years from Earth, is a rocky world orbiting a white dwarf — the embering husk of a star. Our sun is expected to transform into a white dwarf in 5 billion years’ time.

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