This dead star offers a glimpse of our solar system’s eventual fate

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/16/world/science-newsletter-wt-scn-solar-system/index.html

Updated 10:57 AM ET, Sat October 16, 2021

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(CNN)Space truly is the final frontier.Fifty-five years after the world met Capt. James T. Kirk and his crew on the USS Enterprise,William Shatner was able to boldly go there.

The “Star Trek” actor became theoldest person to ever travel to space. The trip was a blisteringly brief 10 minutes aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft, but Shatner was incredibly moved by the “profound experience” of seeing the “life and nurturing” of Earth.

Current-day scientists are living…