But before this, our world will have changed a lot. 3.5 billion years from now, the Sun will be 40% brighter. Oceans will boil. Ice caps will melt. Life will not survive. And then it gets worse. 5 billion years from now, the Sun will turn into a red giant, which is nowhere near as much fun as it sounds. Its core will shrink, but its outer layers will expand. Firstly it will consume Mercury and Venus. Good riddance – who needs Mercury, huh? Never took to it. But then it will consume the Earth, SUNSET IN EPPING FOREST before wandering onwards and © DAVID YOUNG outwards to destroy Mars, just to show off really. Makes you think… of mass is released as energy. This shoots to the Sometimes – and we’ve all been there – one looks surface of the Sun and then out into space. The at the stars and contemplates one’s smallness and Sun gets through 500 million tons of hydrogen one thinks to oneself “What’s the flipping point?” per second. This nihilistic view will become more pertinent in By analysing other objects in the solar system, the distant future. There will be a brief flurry of scientists calculate that the Sun is about 4.6 headlines going “Phew - what a scorcher!” and, billion years old. By studying the life cycles of possibly, “As hot as Mercury!” but then the other stars, it is believed that the Sun will have printing presses (or e-readers) will all melt and we used up its hydrogen in about 5 billion years’ will all be vaporised and there will be no planet or people. Anyway, have a nice day. Turned out nice, time. didn’t it?
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