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

a bright sun in the middle of a black sky

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 ...

The sun is setting behind a hazy sky

Our Sun’s Secret Life: What Scientists Are Learning About Our Star

Suhail Ahmed

  We like to think we know the Sun. It rises, it sets, it burns steadily in our skies, a comforting backdrop to everything else that changes. But in observatories from Hawaii to space-based platforms trailing Earth’s orbit, scientists are discovering that our star is far stranger, more dynamic, and more finely tuned than our ...