• Question: Will the sun ever get destroyed?

    Asked by Soha? to Greg, Jen, Laura, Mobeen, Paul on 8 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Laura Haworth

      Laura Haworth answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      It may do one day but I don’t think it will ever happen in either of our lifetimes.

    • Photo: Paul O'Mahoney

      Paul O'Mahoney answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      In about a few billion years the sun will start to expand, and eventually start to collapse on itself again, bu we wont have to worry about that 😛

    • Photo: Greg Melia

      Greg Melia answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Like Paul says, the sun has about another 5 million years of life left. Before that happens though, near the end of its life it will turn into a red dwarf, which is where it starts collapsing in on itself but then rapidly expands until it’s much bigger than before. When that happens, the earth will be far too hot to sustain life. Let’s hope that we’ve invented space travel and found a new planet by then!

    • Photo: Jen Lowe

      Jen Lowe answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      Eventually it will use up all its fuel and that will be it.

    • Photo: Mobeen Ali

      Mobeen Ali answered on 15 Mar 2016:

      It is unlikely that something would destroy the sun. It will most likely run out of fuel in about 4 billion years, expand to become a red giant, go through a few more stages and then fade away.

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