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Earth's end - Artist view

by

Ron Miller/Novapix

Reference

t-glb99-99006

Date

2009-12-21

In about six billion years our sun is expected to dramatically expand and grow hotter as its helium core contracts and ignites the outer layers of hydrogen, eventually becoming a type of star called a "Red Giant."The Sun will continue to bloom for the next few hundred million years until it fills the sky and eventually engulfs the Earth entirely.