{"id":13729,"date":"2025-05-15T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/will-the-sun-ever-burn-out-we-asked-a-nasa-expert-episode-60\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:02:04","slug":"will-the-sun-ever-burn-out-we-asked-a-nasa-expert-episode-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/will-the-sun-ever-burn-out-we-asked-a-nasa-expert-episode-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60"},"content":{"rendered":"
Will the Sun Ever Burn Out? We Asked a NASA Expert: Episode 60<\/h2>\n
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Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Will the Sun ever burn out?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Well, the Sun, just like the stars we see at night, is a star. It\u2019s a giant ball of super hot hydrogen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Gravity squeezes it in and it creates energy, which is what makes the Sun shine. Eventually, it will use up all of that hydrogen. But in the process, it\u2019s creating helium. So it will then use the helium. And it will continue to use larger and larger elements until it can\u2019t do this anymore.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
And when that happens, it will start to expand into a red giant about the size of the inner planets. Then it will shrink back down into a very strange star called a white dwarf \u2014 super hot, but not very bright and about the size of the Earth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
But our Sun has a pretty long lifetime. It\u2019s halfway through its 10-billion-year lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So the Sun will never really burn out, but it will change and be a very, very different dim kind of star when it reaches the end of its normal life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n