Articles for tag: solar system future, Space, star life cycle, the sun

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The Sun’s Future Holds a Dramatic Transformation for Our Solar System

Suhail Ahmed

In roughly five billion years, the quiet yellow star that has warmed Earth for all of human history will become nearly unrecognizable, and with it, our familiar solar system will be radically reshaped. This isn’t a distant, abstract idea in astronomy; it’s a well-modeled sequence of events written into the physics of nuclear fusion and ...