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One day the last star will die and the universe will turn dark forever.
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It will probably be a red dwarf, a tiny kind of star that's also one of our best bets to find alien life
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and might be the last home of humanity before the universe becomes uninhabitable.
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So what do we know about them and why are they our last hope?
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At least 70% of stars in the universe are red dwarfs.
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They are the tiniest stars out there, with only about 7-50% of the mass of our Sun.
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Not that much bigger than our planet Jupiter, which is still huge though.
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They are also very dim.
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It's impossible to see them with the naked eye.
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You've never seen one in the night sky.
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Even with all our technology, we can only clearly observe red dwarfs in our neighborhood.
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Approximately 20 of the 30 stars close to Earth are red dwarfs.
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Like all stars, red dwarfs fuse hydrogen into helium.
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But while more massive stars accumulate all the fuse helium in their cores, red dwarfs stay convective, meaning that the helium and hydrogen constantly mix.
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So they use up their fuel incredibly slowly before they're extinguished.
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Red dwarfs burn so slowly that their average lifespan is between 1 and 10 trillion years.
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By comparison, the Sun will survive for another 5 billion years.
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Because the universe is only 13.75 billion years old, not a single red dwarf has reached later development stages.
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Every single one of the trillions that exist is still a baby.
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Speaking of babies, the smallest star in the entire universe is also a red dwarf, because small red dwarfs are right on the verge of being a star at all,
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just a tiny bit less hydrogen, and they are mere brown dwarfs, failed stars that cannot sustain a fusion reaction for long.
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So what about aliens, or a new home for humanity?
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Since our sun will die one day, we'll eventually need to look for a new home.
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And where there are habitable planets, there might also be aliens.
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The Kepler Space Observatory found
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that at least half of all red dwarfs host rock planets between half and four times the mass of our Earth.
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Many of them are in the habitable zone, the area around a star where water can be liquid.
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But since red dwarfs burn at relatively cold temperatures, a planet would need to be really close to be hospitable, probably as close as Mercury to our Sun, or even closer.
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Which brings with it all kinds of problems.
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For example, a planet this close to a star would probably be tidally locked, meaning the same side would always face it.
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This side would be incredibly hot, while the shadow side would be frozen, which makes it hard for life to develop.
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Although a planet with a big enough ocean might be able to distribute the star's energy and create some kind of stability.
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All the gravitational forces of the red dwarf could squeeze the planet
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and heat it up so much that it might lose all its water over time.
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These planets could end up like Venus, a hot, burning hell.
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Another problem is that many red dwarfs vary in their energy output.
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They can be covered in star spots that can dim their emitted light by up to 40% for months, which would cause oceans on planets to freeze over.
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At other times they can emit powerful solar flares, sudden outbursts of energy incredibly powerful.
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These red dwarfs can double their brightness in minutes, which could strip away sizeable portions of a planet's atmosphere and burn it, rendering it sterile.
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On the other hand, their extremely long lifespan is a big plus.
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A red dwarf with just moderate levels of activity could be an amazing place for a planet that hosts life.
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Life on Earth has existed for about 4 billion years, and we have about a billion years left before the Sun becomes so hot that complex life on Earth will become impossible.
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We will either die out or leave Earth and look for a new home.
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We could build a civilization for potentially trillions of years around a red dwarf with the right conditions.
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About 5% of the red dwarfs in the Milky Way may host habitable, roughly Earth-sized planets.
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That would be more than 4 billion in total.
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But life may not even need a planet like Earth.
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Candidates for life around a red dwarf may be the moons of gas giants or so called super earths, really massive rocky planets.
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All in all there are an estimated 60 billion potentially habitable planets around red dwarfs and that's in the Milky Way alone.
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So red dwarfs might become really important for our survival in the future.
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But everything has to die at some point, even red dwarfs.
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When in trillions of years the life of the last red dwarf in the universe is about to end, it will not be a very spectacular event.
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As its hydrogen runs out it shrinks, becoming a blue dwarf burning out completely.
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After its fuel is spent, it's transformed into a white dwarf, an object about as small as Earth,
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packed very densely and made of degenerate gases, mostly of helium-4 nuclei.
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no more source of energy, it will cool extremely slowly over trillions of years until it becomes its final form, a cold, black dwarf.
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White and black dwarfs are so fascinating that they deserve their own video.
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Anyway, it's going to be a long time before the last stars in the universe vanish.
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It's kind of uplifting to know that if humanity succeeds in venturing into space, we have plenty of time before the universe turns out the lights.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione di livello C1 si basa sul video “The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: dwarf, planet, star, Earth, universe. Questo video contiene 61 frasi e 976 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 5:45. Chi parla ha un ritmo naturale di circa 170 parole al minuto, vicino a una conversazione quotidiana. Il 82% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| habitable aggettivo | /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ | abitabile |
| helium sostantivo | /ˈhiː.li.əm/ | elio |
| hydrogen sostantivo | /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/ | idrogeno |
| emit verbo | /iˈmɪt/ | emettere |
| fuse sostantivo | /fjuːz/ | miccia |
| accumulate verbo | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | accumularsi |
| degenerate aggettivo | /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/ | snaturato |
| extinguish verbo | /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ | estinguere |
| gravitational aggettivo | /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/ | gravitazionale |
| hospitable aggettivo | /hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/ | ospitale |
| outburst verbo | /ˌaʊ̯tˈbɝst/ | esplosione, scoppio |
| sterile aggettivo | /ˈstɛɹəl/ | sterile, infertile |
| uninhabitable aggettivo | /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/ | inabitabile |
| vanish verbo | /ˈvænɪʃ/ | sparire, svanire |
| nucleus sostantivo | /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ | nucleo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| burn out verbo | spegnersi, estinguersi |
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| run out verbo | essere a corto |
| turn out verbo | risultare |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | would be frozen · can be covered · is spent |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | You've never seen · has reached · has existed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | Jupiter, which is · frozen, which makes |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 3 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come they're, we'll, you've. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: extinguish /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, degenerate /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, helium /ˈhiː.li.əm/, hydrogen /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/, hospitable /hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: emit /iˈmɪt/, fuse /fjuːz/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, convective /kənˈvɛk.tɪv/, degenerate /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, lifespan /ˈlaɪf.spæn/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Inizia a velocità 0,75×, fai shadowing frase per frase e torna alla velocità normale quando diventa facile.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come habitable, helium, hydrogen.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.