SNAPSHOT: First Direct Evidence Stars Like Our Sun Turn Into Crystals

Stars like our sun can turn into crystals in the final stages of their lives, bringing a whole new meaning to those glittering jewels in the sky. Astronomers from the University of Warwick say they've found the first direct evidence that white dwarf stars - the dense, stellar corpses of stars like our sun - can crystallize, or turn from a liquid into a solid. The discovery was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.Astronomers had long suspected such crystallization was po