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To: steve-b

WHOOOPS! I meant expand to a Red Giant. Sigh.


47 posted on 12/14/2005 9:33:22 AM PST by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: RadioAstronomer

Well, it doesn't nova, it disperses into a 'planetary nebula' with the remains shrinking to a white dwarf.

Where it will fade to a black dwarf.


48 posted on 12/14/2005 9:01:20 PM PST by Crazieman (6-23-2005, Establishment of the United Socialist States of America)
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