when the sun dies?

Question

it will proberly just be gradual. we will get colder and colder (prob none of us here will be around when it happens) but then will we maybe get sucked in to another suns orbit like the closest star?

Answer 1

the matter with which sun is made up, will be ejected outwards. the gases released out will probably remain there for millions & maybe billions of years before they again pulled inwards due to their own gravity and might form another star.

Answer 2

Our sun is a normal G dwar star (a run of the mill star as far as mass goes). It is already 4.5 billion years old, and has enough fuel for another 5 or 6 billion years.
Unfortunately all good things must end. At near the end of it's life, our sun will start to swell as it runs out of hydrogen and starts fusing helium at its center. This will culminate in a Red Giant phase, in which our sun could expand almost as far as the orbit of Mars.
After about 50 million years in this state, our sun will be nothing but a husk of it's former glory...a white dwarf. Although hotter and brighter than it was in it's day, it will be much smaller, about the size of earth. After a few billion years, it will cool down until it no longer shines....it will now be a black dwarf, a sphere of degenerate gas floating in the cosmos.

Answer 3

Hello again Cutie pie

The sun has been 'alive' for 4,500,000,000 years now and it has another 4,500,000,000 to go be fore it dies out.
Now, we can never get attracted by another star, because they are too far away for us to feel even a tiny fraction of the pull of thier gravity. But even if we could, we still wouldnt. why?

Because the sun works by turning Hydrogen Nuclei into Helium by thermonuclear fusion, thus creating light and heat. When it runs out of Hydrogen it will only have Helium left.
Now here's why we can't:

As the nuclear fuels in it become depleted, the core contracts and the outer layers expand more then the orbit of mars (Red Giant). The outer layers of the sun will start to drift off into space (Planetary Nebula). The Sun looses most of its mass to the Nebula.

The Planitary Nebula will consume Mercury, Venus, EARTH and Mars. That means the firls 4 planets will be destroyed, thus not being able to go anywhere other then to smitherenes.

and if you want to know... the final processes of the sun's death...

The star cools and shrinks and it will eventually be a few thousand miles in diameter (White Dwarf). No nuclear reactions will take place inside it and the faint star radiates its heat into space.

The Sun will eventually loose all of its heat and becomes cold and dark (Black Dwarf)

Theory has it that the dusty remains of this process will one day form a new solar system, with a possibility of new life...

Hope this answered your question =D

Answer 4

Yes, when the sun begins to die, it will balloon up into a huge red giant. That does not happen overnight, but we will have plenty of time to pack our bags and set up camp on some of the outer planets (which will warm up quite nicely during the sun's red giant stage). That will last for a million years or so and then the sun will puff off its outer layers of gas and shrink down to a white dwarf. By that time we will have constructed numerous vessels and most likely moved onward and outward into the universe.
The sun will not explode. It does not have sufficient mass to cause a supernova explosion. The sun's death will be very peacefull and gentle and will end in a dying ghasp.

Answer 5

In star terms,our sun is middle-aged and will die one day.It has another 5,000 million years of shining to do until it uses up its hydrogen fuel.It will then start using up its helium.As it does so,it will turn into a giant red star,shining 1,000 times brighter than now, and it will be hundred times larger in size.Next it will shrink into a white dwarf star, the size of the earth.Thousands of millions of years later, it will cool down and end its life as a cold dark body called a black dwarf.

Answer 6

no, it won't get colder, is will get hotter as the sun expands and vaporizes the terrestrial planets, in 4and1/2 billion years. that means the earth will be burnt to a crisp as the sun swells into a red giant.

Answer 7

I hear it to some one after Armagadon in Earth Next Step in Mars and 3 Rd is SUN so wait Not Longer Then ,3276782368732627862187621782167821367821 Years

Answer 8

Actually, when the sun dies, we will die.

When the sun begins to die, it will turn into a red giant. The sun will begin to expand quickly. It will eventually engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. we will die a very quick and painless death. Eventually the sun will turn into a massive red giant. Then, without warning, it will collapse upon itself and explode into a massive supernova. It also could collapse into a white drawf, brown dwarf, or black hole, but the consensus it that it will explode and become some gaseous nebula or something. You won't care though, you'll be long since dead.

This won't happen for a billion years though

Answer 9

the sun won't die
but the earth will
every year the earth approach more to the sun
after many year everything on earth will burn
and after that they won't be a planet called earth anymore

Answer 10

I hope we will not get sucked into another orbit, how to travel in space....no O2 will die. I hope that no one is around when the sun dies. coz we'll all die too.