The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

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Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

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International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

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