What will happen to our sun?

April 5, 2019 2:38am CST
What will happen to our sun? The star we know as the sun will change. Will it become a super nova and explode or expand into a red giant and swallow up the earth? As a star burns up or exhausts its hydrogen fuel supply in its core, nuclear reactions can no longer continue and so the core begins to contract due to its own gravity. It might look like a star in the picture as it sheds its outer skin. A star can turn completely white called a white dwarf and some say given time turn black giving off no heat or light whatsoever but a black dwarf star has never been viewed. Why is that? Image provided by... https://www.eso.org/public/
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@Shavkat (137272)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
Sometimes things happen without any concrete explanation.
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@mrki444 (15150)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
5 Apr 19
For this event, there is concrete explanation.
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6 Apr 19
Science can give us some idea of why things exist. It also puts forth some interesting questions and we strive to find the answers. Some we get correct some we don't.
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@Shavkat (137272)
• Philippines
8 Apr 19
@mrki444 I fo agree with you. There is an event held as you described. @mynameiskate Some of these facts were proven through science researches by experts.
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@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
Outlive us all?
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@mrki444 (15150)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
5 Apr 19
And my our generations.
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6 Apr 19
A good deal for us. :)
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
5 Apr 19
I believe that our sun is not big enough to become a supernova and the most likely scenario is that it will expand as it cools to at least the orbits of Mercury and Venus. Eventually, it will engulf the Earth, though long before that happens, our Earth will have become uninhabitable.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2019/01/09/when-and-how-will-our-sun-eventually-die/#86222f25ed17
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6 Apr 19
I've read several of Viktor T. Toth articles and delighted he shares his knowledge with others. He does make complicated things readable and understandable. I appreciate that though not completely sure what a part time physicist means. He writes with complete certainty as he knows the material and wants to display confidence on the material. I might question some of his conclusions but not on this one. Today I've learned there is another star type. Brown! My they are like people. ha ha
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@May2k8 (18123)
• Indonesia
5 Apr 19
Our sun will approach the earth in millions of years, and the heat will not go out.
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6 Apr 19
Certainly it takes so long millions of years is but a drop in the bucket. It will still be hot for quite sometime. From what I understand about stars by reading about them they are like engines. They are active and consume fuel. In the case of a planet, our planet earth the core being hot molten lava creates a lot of friction as it moves around down there and provides a magnetic field around the earth like a skin that protects her. A star's core is under extreme conditions so serves to give off light and heat but not at a natural cost - that being consumption of fuel. A star is very efficient and has a lot of fuel but eventually . . . .. . . . . . ..*
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@jstory07 (135173)
• Roseburg, Oregon
5 Apr 19
The sun will burn out in a million years from now so we have nothing to worry about right now.
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@josie_ (9763)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
But climate change should be of concern to all.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
5 Apr 19
I hope nothing bad will happen to the sun.
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@Nevena83 (65280)
• Serbia
5 Apr 19
@mynameiskate Yes, people have destroyed a lot of nature and she will one day kick back our blow.
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6 Apr 19
@Nevena83 With all the strange weather we see around the world that may be in the works presently?
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5 Apr 19
Not sure is it bad? Everything gets older and changes do take place. How a stars effects the surrounding planets though certainly will is felt. In the case of a red giant the sun would swell up and consume most of the planets including earth I would think. Not to worry though it wouldn't be for a while.
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@rsa101 (37969)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
I think you worry too much. The sun will not tuurn into one the next million years or so. I think we should worry about our planet more like we dump too much garbage on it that we poison our waters and burn a lot of oils poisoning our air. They are much more real threat to us than the sun turning into white dwarf or super nova.
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6 Apr 19
It takes a long time for a star to go through its life cycles. Billions of years who knows. I'm a senior and won't be around to see the next century maybe not even for another decade, one never knows and so I'm not worried. We should do more I agree for looking after our affairs and what we do as a human race with our leftovers is very important. Any ideas on how that could be accomplished?
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
5 Apr 19
Sun is hotter already and I don't know how long it will take to destroy all.
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@Sreekala (34312)
• India
8 Apr 19
@mynameiskate Yes, In India especially Southern India is facing lot of problems in summer in this year. Earlier it was cool there and rained most of the season there.
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7 Apr 19
As far as I know the sun hasn't gotten any hotter. The earths upper atmosphere is undergoing some changes which can cause more of the sun's heat to reach the surface. Lets hope we can adapt to the changes. In India I'm sure you are noticing hotter summers?
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8 Apr 19
@Sreekala Is there little question weather patterns are changing around the world? I think this has been proven many times over by weather records? And then there are the older generation which say they remember a different world. The question is can people cope?
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
6 Apr 19
I don't believe that anything will happen to our sun. It will always be there and it will help to provide mankind's needs for eternity.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
7 Apr 19
@mynameiskate That's true! I'm sure God has a few things planned to make sure that the Earth will always be around and have a sun to make things grow and give us warmth.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
7 Apr 19
@mynameiskate Our imagination can take us anywhere. Time will tell.
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7 Apr 19
@1hopefulman I'm not sure what God has planned when it comes to a planet revolving around a star. It is difficult to imagine the time line as well and requires a lot of imagination. "In twenty billion years I want to see the following happen?" Forever is such a long long time.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
5 Apr 19
Man would had already found an escape before it happens
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
7 Apr 19
@mynameiskate we don't have thar answer right now but people in the future before it happens probably would.
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7 Apr 19
@louievill They might send out a time capsule into space with a record of all we did and how we lived?
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6 Apr 19
My question would then be where will they go? And how?
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
6 Apr 19
Thankfully that is millions of years away by which time if man is still as stupid as he is today no one will be left to suffer this fate!
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6 Apr 19
I am not sure what a good prediction might be, maybe billions of years, not sure. What ever time there is left should be long enough for him to smarten up you would think.
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@just4him (308692)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
5 Apr 19
It's going to be a long while before that happens to our sun. Definitely not in our lifetime. I'd say a black dwarf isn't seen because it's black and against a black sky, yeah, not seen.
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5 Apr 19
Not unless we live for a few billion years! Actually would need to look the time line up again. The only reason I know these things is the little bit I read about it. We can't see a black dwarf because some think it is because it takes such long time to get to be one. They think the universe isn't that old. Yet! Wait for it!
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@nela13 (55824)
• Portugal
5 Apr 19
Ohh my... I don't want to think about it right now.
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@nela13 (55824)
• Portugal
6 Apr 19
@mynameiskate in a million of years I will think about it
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6 Apr 19
That's okay we don't need to. Take a break from it for million years and then come back to it. ha ha I just like learning about things like stars.
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@nick2345 (485)
• Greece
6 Apr 19
There are so many things that we don't know and we can't explain, universe is amazing and very powerful
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6 Apr 19
Makes us look rather small doesn't. Little ants.
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@db20747 (43434)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
8 Apr 19
In my theory the sun cannot run out!! All the hydrogen atoms are trapped 2gether by a magnet that is lit by electricity which then creates more oxygen which burn by the electricity which creates more oxygen!!
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