The sun will turn into a red giant, then into a white dwarf surrounded by a planetary nebula. This will take billions of years. The white dwarf is basically the ash of a star. It’s a hot glowing remnant that no longer has nuclear fusion and so it’ll just glow for trillions of years slowly losing heat and light until it becomes a cold lump of carbon. The inner solar system will most likely be wiped out during the red giant phase as the sun will expand tremendously in size eventually reaching somewhere between earth and mars’ orbit.
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Of course, the sun isn't special. We have about 5 billion more years.
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You should find a new hobby like googling because it would tell you the sun will burn out in ~5 billion years
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You might want to sit down for this, but the sun is also a star. We’re just really really close to it.
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One proposal suggests that the universe will entirely run down eventually. In many billions of years It will become a cold empty featureless vacuum.
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Yes, but humanity likely won't be around to see it. It's a ways off.
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thanks for responding so quickly y'all ( n U n )
Yes, the sun will burn out next week, actually. Bring a coat.
Yes, obviously the Sun will burn out too. But you have a few billion years of time before that.
our sun has already kaboomed once, that's why we have heavy elements that are only made in nova
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