The next generation of powerful Earth- and space-based telescopes will be able to hunt distant solar systems for evidence of life on Earth-like exoplanets—particularly those that chaperone burned-out stars known as white dwarfs.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-04-astronomers-life-orbiting-long-dead-stars.html