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Sun’s death could tear outer planets from orbit

A new study finds that once the Sun’s mass loss is modelled as uneven bursts rather than a smooth process, the outer planets’ dynamical lifetime collapses from an…

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Images of the Solar System's four giant outer planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and labelled with their names.