The Sun Will go out. Believe or not?
By abelkrisna
@abelkrisna (706)
Indonesia
15 responses
@SparkyG (357)
• United States
20 Dec 06
The sun is just a star like the millions of other ones in the sky so yes eventually it will die. Scientist estimate it's about 4.5 billion years old and will last for about another 5 billion. I don't think our planet will last that long but at least the sun will be there if it does.
@Stiletto (4579)
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27 Oct 06
Yes of course it will eventually. Probably in a couple of million years time though so I don't think we need to worry too much!
@cottonmouth (6)
• United States
21 Dec 06
of course it will. our sun is an average star. stars are born and stars die. that's a fact. but we won't be around when that happens. we're talking millions of years from now. different stars die differently. our sun will expand, consuming all the inner planets, before it explodes and shrinks into a a white dwarf. eventually, (perhaps, millions of years later) another star will be born from all of the star dust and the system will begin again.
@smuggeridge (2148)
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27 Oct 06
yeah od course it will, eventually but not for billions of years so i don't think we need to worry
@ravibhagya (135)
• India
21 Dec 06
Our Sun will end its days by expanding to the size of Earth's orbit and puffing off its outer layers at that time we would call it a red giant star. Eventually, all that will remain is a tiny core (a white dwarf star) about the size of Earth. Earth will be burnt to a crisp, but this won't happen for about 5 BILLION years so don't start packing your bags for Alpha Centauri just yet!
@ravibhagya (135)
• India
21 Dec 06
Yes of course it will eventually in a couple of million years time till hydrogen fuel completed