Today on Far Future
Horizons we present a horrific scenario. What if our life-giving Sun were to
suddenly begin expanding into a Red Giant? A stellar Rip Van Winkle effect.
Something the Sun was not supposed to do until five billion years from now when it exhausts all its hydrogen fuel in its core and leaves the Main Sequence stage of its life.
Something the Sun was not supposed to do until five billion years from now when it exhausts all its hydrogen fuel in its core and leaves the Main Sequence stage of its life.
The current size of the Sun (now in the main sequence) compared to its estimated maximum size during its red-giant phase in the future
