I am religious and I believe in God, but lets answer this question without involving religion. I was wondering if it is possible for the sun to just burn out... please help.
2006-09-22 19:42:11 · 18 answers · asked by Ray 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
gonna happen, unfortunately. but don't loose sleep over it, you'll be dead by then, and humanity will probably be extinct (well, if the sun expands and swallows the earth before it burns out, there won't even be a planet left, but there you are). The sun is about half-way thorough it's life.
The sun is burning hydrogen, and eventually the hydrogen will run out, the sun will expand, swallowing the closer planets it stole hydrogen etc. off all those billions of years ago, and perhaps a few gas giants as well, then it will collpase in on it's self, and become a white, then a black dwarf star.
2006-09-22 22:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by fatal_essence 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has nothing to do with this. The sun will eventually run out of nuclear power source and will end up as a neutron star about the size of the earth. It is the fate of all stars. Just a matter of a few billion years that's all.
2006-09-22 20:05:55 · answer #2 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will burn out completely around 9 billion years from now, or that's at least what astronomers know from studying other main-sequence stars that burn out, but before it burns out it will turn into a 'red giant' and swallow up, Mercury, Venus and possibly Earth, but that won't happen for another 4.5 billion years, and we'll probably be extinct by then, or at least moved to another galaxy.
2006-09-22 22:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by Eddy G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course and it is already doing so, the sun like all other power sources must nd at some point, but thankfully you won't have to worry in this lifetime, maybe the next 10000000' years or so, so belive all you want, and if you come back as the bad book says, you wouldn't want to !
2006-09-22 21:35:50 · answer #4 · answered by david g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is very possible. The Max Planck Institute claims that the sun is now more active than it has been for 8,000 years.
There has been unprecedented global warming since the 1980s.
Some people claim that the sun is about to go nova.
2006-09-22 19:48:44 · answer #5 · answered by GreenHornet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because the sun, like most stars, burn hydrogen and helium continuously, thus, it loses gas atoms while creating energy. One day it will explode as a supernova, which may lead into a black hole and suck all matter including light.
2006-09-23 04:49:52 · answer #6 · answered by Artie O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. All stars eventually burn themselves out, and our sun is a star... Scientists say it won't happen for another million years or so, so I think we're safe for now...
2006-09-22 19:49:55 · answer #7 · answered by xcrimsonxphoenixofxhellx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is already been said that the Earth will expand and explode when the time comes for the end of our universe. It most likely won't happen for another million to billion years...I wouldn't worry about it...
2006-09-22 19:48:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eventually, but not in our lifetime. Saw a program on the Discovery channel on this subject a few weeks ago.
2006-09-22 19:52:14 · answer #9 · answered by Papa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and it will, but not anytime soon. somewhere in the low billions of years, i think, from now the sun will use up all it's fuel and die out.
2006-09-22 19:49:02 · answer #10 · answered by de bossy one 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋