Does the Sun have a life?

Question

Can it be scientifically proven either way?

Answer 1

The sun is a star and so it will have its time when it will die, so I believe that if something can die then it must be alive.

Answer 2

Nah, the night life is entirely the Moon's.

Does it have a lifetime? Given so much fuel for fusion, it's all going to run out. Even if our descendants prod it into fusing down to iron, there's only so many times the expected 5 or so billion years can be multiplied out - over the current hydrogen-into-helium, catalyzed-by-temporary-carbon process. What, maybe 10 times? So, 50 billion years? Nothing lasts forever.

Is the sun alive? See the smile on the raisin box? Some simple definitions of life mention use of energy - check, big-time - and regeneration/reproduction - ours is a third-generation star. With all that radio energy emanating that seems random to us, given a long enough time, could it be interpreted intelligently? Hmm, living stars, eh?

Answer 3

Not in the same way that we have a life but it is a mass of burning gas and one day all the gas; the fuel, will be burnt and so the sun will effectively die. If this is what you mean by life (and death) then yes, the sun does have a life and so too a death.

But don't worry this isn't calculated to happen for another 4 billion years or so.

Answer 4

Every star has a lifespan based on how massive they were when nuclear fusion ignited the gases (held together be gravity) into a flaming ball.

Our star, the Sun, has lived about half its life. It's got about 4.5 billion years left before it swells into a gigantic Red Giant, a stellar event which will encompass all the inner planets. When that happens, Earth will be, essentially, part of the Sun.

Answer 5

In terms of having soul and being able to move of its own accord and breathe etc: no, it has no life. If you mean "does it have a life-span, or a time when it may end, then yes: eventually it will. This is because the gases that it is permanently burning, are not a source which is renewed at all: once they are gone, thats it. Eventually, it'll burn the last of the gas, and then die, like any other star.

Answer 6

We've 5 billion years worth of gases left. You've nothing to worry about. As far as life, that means awareness. I'm not thinking the sun has an awareness anymore than the universe itself has an awareness that I've seen. That's left to your higher power or religional beliefs.

Answer 7

Sun can not sustain life on it. Its very high temperatures (almost 6,000°C on surface) does not permit the existence of life.

Biochemical reactions needed to rise life can not ocurr at so high temperatures and very high radioactive radiations due to thermonuclear reactions that take place in Sun.

Answer 8

the sun is just a ball of burning gases, so no it has no life, its not a living thing. this has already been proven.

Answer 9

i think that the sun has no life, but maybe someday someone will come with the discovery of living things there

Answer 10

stars have a life span , so why not the sun its only a star