On Apr 24, 2:13 am, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
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Brenda Ann wrote:

On Apr 23, 1:17 pm, wrote:

If y'all think Earth is warm now,,, stick around for about four and a
half billion more years.It will be the end times,I tell you,it will be
the end of everything.
cuhulin

I think that the 4.5 billion years may be quite an overestimate. I've
read more conservative estimates of 1 to 1.5 billion years before the sun
goes nova (Solar system warming?) I suspect that mankind will be long
extinct by that time, or gone from the spent planet.

The sun doesn't have enough mass to go through the nova stage at the end
of it's life. When it runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion, the sun will
slowly expand to a red giant which dissipates into the solar system,
leaving behind a white dwarf star. This star shines from residual heat
instead of fusion. It has a much longer life span than the original star
(sun). The white dwarf eventually becomes a black dwarf which emits radio
waves instead of light but the universe is not old enough yet for black
dwarf stars to exist.

Thanks for the cosmology lesson. Never too old to learn something new.
Either way, though, the Earth would get pretty warm as the red giant expands
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BAD,

The Life Cycle of the Sun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_Life.png

About - The Sun {Old Sol}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

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