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[–] daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The sun is going to explode, eventually. My guy. I still need somewhere to live. And I'm not about to go live in the bush.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sun will expand not explode. Still gonna burn the Earth though, assuming orbits don't get wonky somehow

[–] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 2 years ago

Could still be considered an explosion, just really slow when looked at from a galactic perspective

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And won't happen for hundreds of millions, to a billion plus years.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thought it was 5 billion but at this point i don't recall

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's until the life cycle of the sun ends and all it's nuclear fuel will run out, forcing it into red giant, then white dwarf, forms. However, the sun will have expanded enough to make Earth uninhabitable, from what I can find, somewhere in the the neighborhood of 700ish million years, to 1.3 billion years.

We would've had solar engines for millions of years by then too. Isn't that hard to move earth or the sun to a more habitable distance.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The sun is currently exploding. It's literally a giant constantly exploding nuke in the sky.