• Question: Could we ever have a different colour of sun? Or coould we survive the sun explosding and have a new sun?

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      Asked by Hoadleyyj to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 17 Mar 2015.
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        Peter Maskell answered on 17 Mar 2015:

        the sun colour will change as it ages. it will eventually turn into a red giant (with a reddish-orange colour) but we would have no new sun 🙁

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        Shreesha Bhat answered on 17 Mar 2015:

        Well, you can see atleast three different colours now itself (depending on the time thanks to the atmosphere- near sunrise and sunset you can see orange, red apart from yellow when the sun is high). If you go to space you may only see that the sun is very bright (nearly white).

        If our atmosphere starts behaving differently (instead of scattering blue light and letting red light through which it normally does, if it could scatter red light and let blue light through, maybe you can see blue, green colours of the sun). But, however we hope, its highly unlikely that will happen!

        We will not survive the sun exploding, no definitely not! So, the question of a new sun doesn’t arise.

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