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The End of the World
Meekl:
--- Quote from: Rughugger on June 19, 2009, 10:59:01 AM ---Yes, but before it does, it will go through a small phase of expansion as it tries to release excess energy it can no longer sustain before collapsing back in on itself. That's where the Earth will be engulfed and most likely consumed before it gets to a dwarf status.
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no, the "puff" is only going to reach to about Venus, if the Sun were to stay the same size.
Riot:
I can wait untill it happens
Meekl:
--- Quote from: Riot on June 19, 2009, 11:25:59 AM ---I can wait untill it happens
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in a few billion years.
Rughugger:
No, it'll most likely engulf everything up to the asteroid belt. Here is a link talking about it, but I'll copypasta the one paragraph that agrees with my statement.
Edit: forgot the link, dur hur. :s http://www.mcclatchydc.com/science/story/31756.html
--- Quote from: Scientist dudes on June 19, 2009, 11:27:01 AM ---Astronomers think that white dwarfs are the final stage in the evolution of a low- or medium-mass star, such as our sun. When the sun burns up all its hydrogen, it will swell into an enormous "red giant" that will swallow everything in the solar system as far out as Mars.
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Even comes with a neat-o picture showing the stages. :D
General Omega:
--- Quote from: Inv3rted on June 19, 2009, 12:21:18 AM ---...are you high? The moon is always closer to the Earth than the sun.
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No, I was saying, that the distance compared to the sun, with the moon's orbit, can be smaller then the distance of the earth to the sun. Of course it is always closer to the earth, I am saying that it can be closer to the sun at points compared to the earth's distance.