(August 29, 2018 at 9:46 pm)Kit Wrote: I am getting conflicting answers from science sources. Therefore, I would like your educated opinion.
One source states the sun will never explode because its mass is not large enough to cause it to explode at the end of its life cycle.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.univers...plode/amp/
Another source states it will explode.
https://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=71
What say you?
You have more to worry about with asteroids and comets hitting the planet than you do the sun doing anything. Our sun currently is in mid life. Stars have several ways they die, and they always die. Our sun has about I think another 5 billion years. The planet will see some sort of mass extinction events in the future to, just like the 5 we've had so far. It is highly unlikely that our species will survive another 5 billion years. It isn't being fatalistic on my part, just a statement of how our planet works and effects evolution. We have more to fear from our own behaviors currently.
You have more to worry about with climate change and nuclear war right now. We cant help what the cosmos does, but we really need to as a species start caring about our planet now. We can only extend the right, but it won't be forever.