ESA, the European Space Agency, i.e. the equivalent of NASA for Europe, made an official announcement about the sun that shows us again how much significance humanity itself has for the universe of which it is a part. According to the ESA, a date could be established when the sun will "go out", an inevitable process that is part of the universe itself, and based on the research done by scientists, the star in the solar system will disappear in 3 billion years.
ESA makes this prediction thanks to the space probe Gaia, which travels through the solar system, a study carried out by scientists from various countries, reaching the conclusion that none of the people living now, or who will be born for a long time, will experience a world without sun. According to the data from ESA, the sun would reach its maximum temperature at an age of about 8 billion years, after that, over the course of 3 billion years, it will slowly die out as the temperature decreases .
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The sun is now 4.57 billion years old, so it is at a great distance from the moment when it will reach its maximum temperature, from that point it will grow in mass and diameter, turning into a giant red star. Now, according to ESA's calculations, the sun would be at the middle of its age, and after it reaches 8 billion years, for 3 billion years it will continue to emit radiation into the universe, only that their intensity will decrease constantly.
ESA is still analyzing a lot of Gaia information to learn more about the sun that heats our solar system, but unfortunately there are many unknowns regarding the star. 3 billion years is an extremely long time for mankind, small for the universe, but it is something that today's researchers will never get to observe, and that is very important, in the end, although they make estimates about when the sun will disappear.
“At about 4,57 billion years old, our Sun is currently at a comfortable middle age, fusing hydrogen into helium and generally being quite stable; it even stood. This will not always be the case.
From this paper, it becomes clear that our Sun will reach a maximum temperature at about 8 billion years, then cool and increase in size, becoming a red giant star around 10-11 billion years old. The Sun will reach the end of its life after this phase, when it eventually becomes a faint white dwarf.”
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ESA analyzes not only the Gaia data, but also those of the space probe that NASA sent to get as close as possible to the sun and record as much information as possible from there, so that humanity will learn more about them .
