Scientists have been debating for years what happens if the fusion of the sun began to run out. When the fuel runs out, the sun will redden and swell. Recent simulations have found the earth will end up being swallowed by the sun.
The fate of life on earth is always dependent on the sun. Star if enlarged usually are in the final stages of explosion called a supernova. The explosion would produce a neutron star or a black hole.
This black hole is very dangerous, because it will suck in the surrounding sky objects including planets. But with a medium-size star like the sun was still far from the supernova stage. The sun slowly going through a transformation after the last one runs out of hydrogen fuel will begin to burn helium.
Helium Burning will make the core temperature is very high and causing the sun turned into a red star. Latest simulation will occur about 5 billion years from now in which the size of the sun will swell 250 times the size now.
Astrophysicists study the past and the future of the sun through the observation of stellar evolution in various types and lifetimes. Previous studies found that the swollen sun will affect the Mercury and Venus, while Mars remains safe because it is not affordable. But the earth was in a zone that is uncertain because it was in a location between the two planets.
The study estimates that the sun begins to lose mass on a large before the swell caused the earth to escape into a more distant orbit from the sun. This can happen because the sun's gravity is increasingly reduced.
But hopes that the earth could have survived have become extinct. British astronomer who simulate the weakening of solar gravity get less encouraging results.
"If there is an effect, the earth is estimated to have escaped the damage. But most outside weaker astmofer widened sun and the earth will orbit at the weakest layers, "said Robert Smith of researchers at the University of Sussex in England.
This low pressure gas is causing the earth toward the sun go despite the gravity of the earth pushing outwards. Earth will eventually be swallowed up and evaporate about 7.6 billion years from now.
But life is going extinct faster than the schedule. Scientists agree, all life will be extinct one billion years from now, when the sun was getting brighter and change the earth into a desert in total. The fall in carbon dioxide levels make plants can not perform photosynthesis and cause the death of living things.
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