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I heard the Sun is expanding with the time, will it ever explode, if not how big could it get? ... It is true that the Sun is very slowly expanding and getting brighter right now. The reason for this is that as it is burning hydrogen to helium in the core ... What will happen to life on Earth when the Sun becomes a red giant?
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The Sun is an averaged size star so it doesn't have enough mass to explode. Instead it reheats and expands into a red giant, so earth will be vaporized within the sun! Oh yeah and don't freak out, it's not going to happen within 5 billion years.
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How many years untill the sun explodes? Why does it matter if the sun explodes? How many years before the sun explodes? What will happen when then sun ...
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This will happen in about 6 billion years, but our investigations of stars like the Sun show that in about 500 million to 1 billion years from now, the Sun will have grown in its power output so that the temperature of the Earth's surface will be 50 - 100 degrees higher than it is today.
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Astrophysicists estimate that the Sun will begin to expand as it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core. This will happen in about 4-5 billion years, when the Sun will change from a white dwarf to a red giant (SOHO). ... "How many years will it take before the Sun explodes or disappears? Here is the short answer:
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earthguide.ucsd.edu/sun/intro4.html
earthguide.ucsd.edu/sun/intro4.html
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The sun is the major source for Space Weather in the solar system. Storms of matter and energy from the sun travel out into space. When Earth intercepts some of this energy, its environment changes suddenly. ... Does nuclear fission also happen inside the Sun? ... What would happen if the Sun exploded?
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image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/asun.html
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Because of its smaller mass as compared to other more massive stars, the Sun will not end its life with an explosion to become a supernova. Astronomers expect that the Sun will pass through a red-giant phase, shed a small fraction of its ... Question No. 336 : What will happen when the Sun in the Solar System explodes?
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Death of the Sun ... When the Sun explodes, what will happen to the solar system? When will this happen? ... Will commercial trips to the moon and space happen?
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thus the Sun will not become a supernova on its own. "Novae" arise from an accumulation of gases on a collapsed object, such as a white dwarf or a neutron star. The gas comes from a nearby companion (usually a distended giant).
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