A famous person said that everything will die, including the sun, so when does the sun explode?
If people always grow old and die, what about the sun? When will it explode?
Since our solar system is mostly unexplored by humans, the mind tends to hover in endless possibilities and the outcome of events that could lead to the destruction of the Planet. One of the most common questions that comes to mind about the solar system is whether the sun will randomly explode one day.
According to Beatles singer-songwriter George Harrison, everything will pass, according to decades of mathematical and astronomical models, including the sun.
So, when will the sun burn out?
Although our medium-sized solar mass eventually dies trillions of years from now, the sun's "life" at the current stage, known as the "main sequence," is now in hydrogen fusion allowing for its radiating energy and providing enough pressure to prevent the stars from settling in their own mass, while the solar collapse will end in 5 billion years.
Although the Sun is a mid-aged star, scientists expect it to live for about 10 billion years. After the sun has burned most of the hydrogen in its core, it will transition to the next stage, becoming a red giant. According to NASA, at this time in the next 5 billion years, the sun will stop generating heat through nuclear fusion, and its core will become unstable and shrink. At the same time, the outer layer of the Sun, which still contains hydrogen, will expand and emit a red glow when cooled. This expansion will gradually engulf the Sun's neighboring planets, Mercury, and Venus, and cause the Sun's solar wind to gradually strengthen, causing Earth's magnetic field to disappear and stripping away Earth's atmosphere.
The Sun will then begin to fuse the remaining helium from hydrogen fusion into carbon and oxygen, eventually collapsing into its core, leaving behind a gorgeous planetary nebula — a glowing shell of hot residual plasma — that changes its outer layer as it shrinks into a denser, much hotter, Earth-sized carcass, or white dwarf. The nebula will only exist for about 10,000 years, Testa says — just a blink of an eye in cosmic time. From there, the rest of the sun will take trillions of years to cool down, eventually becoming a non-luminous object.
In order to come up with a timeline of the Sun and all stars of relative mass, scientists need to know how it releases energy, which is difficult before considering nuclear fusion of the Sun's mass.
All life on Earth, directly or indirectly, depends on the sun for its survival. It provides gravity to the Earth and acts as a source of heat, light, and energy, which are one of the most important components of growth on Earth.
As we all know, the Sun is 4.6 billion years old, it is the only star in the solar system, and all the other planets revolve around it. The glowing balls of gas in the solar system make up 99.8% of the solar system's mass.
As we know, the explosion of the sun will obviously lead to the destruction of life. To answer the age-old question of when the sun will explode, it now seems that it could happen for a long time. Scientists have done a lot of research and estimate that the sun will not explode for the next 5 billion to 7 billion years.
When the Sun no longer exists, it first expands, depletes all the hydrogen in its core, and then eventually shrinks to become a dying star. If the sun explodes, all humans and plants on Earth will eventually become extinct.
It's clear that the sun's explosion would wreak havoc on our solar system, though scientists don't think that will happen. The Sun is very small compared to other stars in the Milky Way, so scientists believe it is highly unlikely to disappear in a giant supernova. It is believed that the sun will disappear at a slower and less abrupt rate.
The sun will eventually get colder and bigger, and scientists say it will be a red giant. When it begins to expand, it is likely to surround Mercury, Venus, and Earth under its control, and the three planets will dissolve immediately. This won't happen for billions of years.
As a species, humans are most likely to face extinction climate change and global warming, which is irreversible. Scientists have assured people that life on Earth will not end anytime soon because of the explosion of the sun.