In a few billion years our Sun will run out of fuel and turn into an extraordinarily dense, Earth-sized star called a white dwarf. Some white dwarfs can rejuvenate themselves into new stars, or novae! Dr. Blaes will tell us how modeling them can tell us about planet formation, the size of the universe, and that mysterious stuff called "dark energy."

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