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Published online 12 August 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030811-1

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Star supply dwindling

Lights will go out on Universe in 10 billion years.

"The Universe is getting dimmer and dimmer," says Alan Heavens. Star numbers, his University of Edinburgh team has found, are falling.

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