The Sun is a star located at the center of our solar system. The sun itself makes up 99.8% of our solar system's mass. The eight planets, three dwarf planets, and numerous other objects such as asteroids and comets orbit the sun. The Sun consists of mostly hydrogen and helium, which it uses as fuel to keep burning.
Currently, the Sun is 4.5 billion years old. When the Sun is 10 billion years old, it will expand to become a red giant. When is becomes red giant, it will be 2,000 times larger and 100 times brighter. Mercury and Venus will become engulfed by this growing Sun, but recent scientific models suggest that the Earth will be spared this awful fate and will move out to a farther orbit.
Since the Sun not a very large star, it will not die in the very large explosions known as a supernova. Instead, the Sun will slowly shed its outer layers which will become the beginnings of a planetary nebula (a cloud of gas). Then only the Sun's core will remain as a white dwarf. This white dwarf will be dramatically smaller than the current size of the sun, and will remain in space with just a white glow. This white dwarf will continue to glow for billions of years; all the while slowly becoming fainter.
The graphic below illustrates the Sun's size when it becomes a red giant.
10 comments:
Very interesting blog, about when the Sun will expand to become a red giant the good thing it the when this happen it's supposed that the earth will be spared this awful fate and will move out to a farther orbit.
The sun is the biggest star in the universe, I've heard that the sun will dissapear, it will be the world's end. So I will pray because I want to see my children growing up.
oh my God, is some way this information is very scary, but in other hand is beautiful, I want to study astronomy someday
This can't have effect in actual fact, that's exactly what I believe.
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Fascinating facts in this article and your pictures are amazing - I could not stop staring at that ball of fire! Scary stuff!
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It is a very interesting read. I didn't realise that in recent models they'd predicted that the Sun would move further out of it's orbit and be spared its fate
very interesting, sometimes we see the sun and now, we do not care to investigate a little more, thanks for the information
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