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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau C1 is gebaseerd op de video “The Last Star in the Universe – Red Dwarfs Explained”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: dwarf, planet, star, Earth, universe. Deze video bevat 61 zinnen en 976 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:45. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 170 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 82% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| habitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/ | bewoonbaar, bewoonbare |
| helium zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhiː.li.əm/ | helium |
| hydrogen zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/ | waterstof |
| emit werkwoord | /iˈmɪt/ | uitzenden, afgeven |
| fuse zelfstandig naamwoord | /fjuːz/ | lont |
| accumulate werkwoord | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | opstapelen, vermeerderen |
| extinguish werkwoord | /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ | uitdoven, doven |
| fascinate werkwoord | /ˈfæsɪneɪt/ | fascineren |
| gravitational bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/ | gravitationeel |
| hospitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/ | gastvrij |
| sterile bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈstɛɹəl/ | onvruchtbaar, steriel |
| uninhabitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/ | onbewoonbaar |
| vanish werkwoord | /ˈvænɪʃ/ | verdwijnen |
| brightness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈbɹaɪtnəs/ | glans, helderheid |
| nucleus zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈnuː.kli.əs/ | kern |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| end up werkwoord | belanden, terechtkomen |
| run out werkwoord | niet meer hebben |
| turn out werkwoord | uitvallen, resulteren |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | would be frozen · can be covered · is spent |
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | You've never seen · has reached · has existed |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | Jupiter, which is · frozen, which makes |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 3 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals they're, we'll, you've. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: extinguish /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, degenerate /dɪˈd͡ʒɛnəɹɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: fuse /fjuːz/, convective /kənˈvɛk.tɪv/, verge /vɜːd͡ʒ/, squeeze /skwiːz/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: habitable /ˈhæbɪtəbəl/, lifespan /ˈlaɪf.spæn/, fascinate /ˈfæsɪneɪt/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/, uninhabitable /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: extinguish /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/, gravitational /ˌɡɹævɪˈteɪʃənəl/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als habitable, helium, hydrogen.
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