• Question: How old do you think the sun will live if it is allready 4 billion years old?

    Asked by harpera to Amy on 10 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Amy Tyndall

      Amy Tyndall answered on 10 Mar 2013:


      We think our Sun will be an incredible 10 billion years old before it forms a planetary nebula! So it has a little while to go yet. Although it won’t stay looking the way it does now for this whole time – before it becomes a PN, it will initially get bigger (hundreds of times the size the Sun is now) to become a Red Giant,

      Here’s a little picture for size comparison!

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