• Question: Will our earth or sun ever blow up?

    Asked by shabby4lyf to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Eventually the nuclear reactions inside the sun which make all the light will stop because the hydrogen fuel they are running on will get used up and the sun will die.

      But don’t worry, it won’t be happening for another 4 billion years yet! So we probably won’t live long enough to see it… unless you’re clever enough to find the secret to eternal life before then 🙂

    • Photo: Darren Nesbeth

      Darren Nesbeth answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Both will. I won’t be there to see it though.

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      I think eventually all stars die or blow up or whatever it is they do, so technically yes I suppose our sun will. I think this will be millions of years from now though, but a physicist will probably give you a better answer.

    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Hi this is an area that I know very little about. The sun has apparently been around for about 4.6billion years and is unusually stable in comparison with other stars (http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Sun.html). It has been predicted that it should last another 5billion years. Likewise the earth should theoretically last a few more billion years as long as we look after it 🙂

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