When the sun becomes a white dwarf why will it take SO long tocool off?
Radium wrote:
Hi:
I've read about the sun's life cycle. Apparently, when the sun becomes
a white dwarf, it will take at least a trillion years to completely
cool off. Why such a long time?
Small surface area.
It seems that the sun would exist much longer dead [i.e. as a white
dwarf] than alive [burning hydrogen and helium].
It will exist far longer as a cold degenerate body.
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