What Will Happen When The Sun Dies

While the sun may have 5 billion years left before it runs out of fuel life on earth will likely be wiped out long before that happens.

What will happen when the sun dies. Research by a team at the university of manchester and published in nature concluded that once the sun exhausts all of its hydrogen fuel in around 5 billion years it will turn into a giant glowing ring of dust and gas. That s because the sun is actually already growing brighter. As the sun expands it will burn up venus atmosphere. There are a number of fascinating things in store for all stars once they ve died that first most obvious.

Five billion years from now our own sun will look like this when it goes through the planetary nebula stage of star death. Previously astronomers thought it would turn into a planetary nebula a luminous bubble of gas and dust until evidence suggested it would have to be a fair bit more massive. Then it too will be consumed by the sun. But in about 5 billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen.

And humans won t be around to see the final act. Our star is currently in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the birth of. But our planet won t go quietly into the night. A solar flare from our sun.

Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted the final dramatic stages of its life will unfold as our host star. This is what will happen to our sun after it dies. All stars die and eventually in about 5 billion years our sun will too. Rather when the sun expands into a red giant during the throes of death it will.

Scientists have made new predictions about what the end will look like for our solar system and when that will happen. Yes the big star in the sky will eventually die but up until recently no one actually knew what would happen after it perished.