I occurred to me that when stars burn out that they would leave behind a solar system which would be invisible to our measurement. It is difficult enough to see planets by transit effects and to see a solar system that had burned out would be nearly impossible unless it showed itself in the gravitational influence on other stars. I makes me wonder how many dead solar systems are wandering about the galaxy like ghosts of fusion or even stars that fizzled.
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