is the sun dying?

Answer 1

it will die after 5000 years

Answer 2

In about 4.5 billion years it'll grow huge and a white dwarf will remain. I'll guess you'll be already dead way before that :).
Brown dwarf stars do have a way longer lifespan: like 100 billion years or so.

The Sun does not have enough mass to explode as a supernova. Instead, in 4-5 billion years, it will enter a red giant phase, its outer layers expanding as the hydrogen fuel in the core is consumed and the core contracts and heats up. Helium fusion will begin when the core temperature reaches about 3×108 K. While it is likely that the expansion of the outer layers of the Sun will reach the current position of Earth's orbit, recent research suggests that mass lost from the Sun earlier in its red giant phase will cause the Earth's orbit to move further out, preventing it from being engulfed. However, Earth's water and most of the atmosphere will be boiled away.

Following the red giant phase, intense thermal pulsations will cause the Sun to throw off its outer layers, forming a planetary nebula. The only object that remains after the outer layers are ejected is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf over many billions of years. This stellar evolution scenario is typical of low- to medium-mass stars.

Answer 3

The unfortunate truth to the universe is that everything is dying, or as a thermodynamics's expert would say, reverting to entropy. From the moment we are born we are dying, from the moment the sun was just a spark it is dying. Entropy is the passage of time moving everything into a further case of chaos.

The good news, this sun will not "Die" for another 6 billion years.

Answer 4

In the sense that the sun is exhausting its store of nuclear fuel, turning hydrogen into helium through fusion, yes.

In terms of time on a human, or even geologic scale, it is dying very slowly, and is probably about half-way through its life as a star. IN other words it has another 5 billion years or so to go.

Answer 5

The sun will begin its "dying" phase in a couple hundred million years, wont be dead for another 5 billion years or so. nothing to lose sleep over

Answer 6

nothing in the universe and space is dying , but everythin is changin constantly form one to another . the fuel of he sun is geting eshausted and it will chanbe into a red gian when its fuel is totally echausted and then might urn into a white dwarf o a black hole . Change is the order of the universe and nature and there is no stopping of it a any time .The old order chageth,yielding place to new .

Answer 7

Didn't you watch National Geographic Explorer yesterday? The sun will die in several billion years, but only after it melts the Earth. We have time, but we will eventually have to leave the planet if we want to survive as a species.

Answer 8

No...it won't start going through it's "dying phase" for another 5 to 10 billion years.

Answer 9

yes, it's been dying since it was born. it's dying cuz it's burining it's fuel. Hydrogen. Hydrogen + Hydrogen = Heluim. but it was about 5 billion years of fuel left.

Answer 10

No.

Its only middle aged.

Answer 11

in some billions of years, it will be, so dead don't panic because I don't think you'll be living so long.