Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Earth Might Survive Sun’s Explosion

What happens to planets when their stars age and die? That’s not an academic question. About five billion years from now, astronomers say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-called red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and dooming life on Earth, but perhaps not Earth itself.

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