There’s not one but four celestial zombies near Earth

It’s a bit of a cosmic graveyard near us (Picture: Getty/Metro)

When our sun is on death’s door in five billion years, it will incinerate Earth and collapse, leaving behind a tiny smoldering speck.

And it turns out that not one but four of these dead embers, called a white dwarf, are on our cosmic doorstep, astronomers have told Metro.

Researchers at the University of Warwick and University of Colorado Boulder found these wisps hidden behind small, dim stars called red dwarves.

The results, published in the scientific journal MNRAS, took lead author Mairi O’Brien by surprise, to say the l...