When the Sun will eat Mercury, Venus, and Earth
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- 24 Aug 2022
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The sun is an angry ball of fire, working o the principles of nuclear physics and powering life on Earth. However, this giver of life will not always be this kind and there will come a time when it will expend all its hydrogen fuel. What follows then will be utter chaos.
As it exhausts its fuel, the sun, nearly five billion years from now, will become a red giant. While it will lose its life-giving powers, it will go out for one last hunt in its neighbourhood — the solar system.
The Sun will engulf the inner planets, Mercury, Venus, and possibly Earth. But don’t worry, by then our civilization would have likely and hopefully long gone from the planet. Researchers, in a new study, have revealed the forces acting on a planet when it is swallowed by an expanding star. Read More...
