(July 23, 2015 at 6:32 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:(July 23, 2015 at 5:56 pm)Yeauxleaux Wrote: It says the star in that solar system is pretty old though. Could go boom before long tbh, especially considering it's bigger than our sun.
Stars like the sun don't go "boom" exactly. They gradually swell into a red giant, then collapse into a white dwarf. Any life on that planet has already had at least a billion more years to evolve than we've had. Who knows how that translates to life evolving in different conditions than we have here.
That's just it though isn't it. Even though our sun will have much longer to live, life as we know it today won't survive one billion years from now, no surface water. Could a new form of life evolve to live in the new habitat? Who knows, but it would be unlike anything we've seen and we have yet to find life in similar environment elsewhere in the solar system.
