Death of our sun: a beautiful journey will come to an end Welcome to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy". Today our topic is "how the beautiful journey of our sun will come to an end?" The exception of course is our Sun, but if anything it's a typical star. It does what stars do by fusing hydrogen into helium in its core, creating energy in the process. There's enough hydrogen fuel to keep the Sun burning for about 10 to 11 billion years. But our Sun is already four-and-a-half billion years old. Source: NASA/SDO (AIA) / Public domain What happens when that hydrogen is exhausted in five and a half billion years? Let's find out and see how low mass stars like our Sun will evolve and eventually die. we know that stars exist in a delicate balance between the energy radiating from its core which exerts a pressure against the surrounding layers. Meanwhile the surrounding layers attempt to crush the star inward, exerting pressure on the core which sus...
The blog is about the Mysteries of Space like History of our solar system, Black holes, Supernovae and etc.