You mean that's not the real name?

The sun goes Red Giant, then contracts into a white dwarf. It never really will act like it does in The Dying Earth books, ready to "go out" at a moment's notice. They're fantasy, and they play fast and loose with things like laws of physics and stellar astronomy.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
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