According to ABC Science.
A team of astronomers have found the ‘missing link’ of stellar death, revealing what our Sun might look like at the end of its life.
The group of Australian and US astronomers, led by Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic of the University of Western Sydney, call the new class of object ’super planetary nebulae’.
They report on their finding in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Large stars typically end their life in a massive explosion of energy known as a supernova. Small stars end with a much smaller blast of gas and dust, known as planetary nebulae.
Planetary nebulae had only been detected around stars with a mass of between 30% and 60% that of the Sun. As a result, little was known as to what happened to average-sized star, such as our Sun.
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