Can we save sun?

In order to save the Sun, to help it last longer than the 5 billion years it has remaining, we would need some way to stir up the Sun with a gigantic mixing spoon. To get that unburned hydrogen from the radiative and convective zones down into the core. One idea is that you could crash another star into the Sun.
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Can we stop the sun from expanding?

We could counterbalance an asteroid 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide and 10^19 kilograms (2.2 × 10^19 lbs) in weight around the Earth and Jupiter to slowly edge the Earth out of the Sun's expansion radius over the next billion years.
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Can we prolong the sun?

Provided we can't procure another energy source to make up for that missing 6%, splitting the Sun's helium back into hydrogen would prolong the lifespan of our Sun to about a trillion years.
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How long does our sun have left?

So our Sun is about halfway through its life. But don't worry. It still has about 5,000,000,000—five billion—years to go. When those five billion years are up, the Sun will become a red giant.
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Will Earth survive the sun?

The bad news, according to Schroder and Smith, is that the Earth will NOT survive the sun's expansion. Even though the Earth could expand to an orbit 50 percent more distant than where it is today (1.5 AUs), it won't get the chance.
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How much longer will Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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What if sun exploded?

For Earth to be completely safe from a supernova, we'd need to be at least 50 to 100 light-years away! But the good news is that, if the Sun were to explode tomorrow, the resulting shockwave wouldn't be strong enough to destroy the whole Earth. Only the side facing the Sun would boil away instantly.
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What happens if the Sun died?

Once all the helium disappears, the forces of gravity will take over, and the sun will shrink into a white dwarf. All the outer material will dissipate, leaving behind a planetary nebula. "When a star dies, it ejects a mass of gas and dust — known as its envelope — into space.
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Is Earth older than the Sun?

The sun, at 4.6 billion years old, predates all the other bodies in our solar system. But it turns out that much of the water we swim in and drink here on Earth is even older.
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Can we restart the Sun?

Here's the thing, the Sun is actually dying. It's just that it's going to take about another 5 billion years to run of fuel in its core. And when it does, Cillian Murphy won't be able to restart it with a big nuke.
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Can we replace the Sun?

It might be possible… but there are far easier solutions to surviving past the life of the Sun (about another 4 – 5 billion years) than building our own. If we reach the technological capability to make our own Sun, we will surely also have the capacity to travel through space and settle new planets in other systems.
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Is the Sun getting hotter 2021?

The Sun is becoming increasingly hotter (or more luminous) with time. However, the rate of change is so slight we won't notice anything even over many millennia, let alone a single human lifetime. Eventually, however, the Sun will become so luminous that it will render Earth inhospitable to life.
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What if the Sun was red?

If sunlight was red then the red sun would be long living allowing evolution to progress longer on that planet. That sun would have been born before our own sun as well, so if compared to the current Earth Date then an Earth-like planet could easily have life that's been around way longer and maybe more advanced.
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What will happen 5 billion years from now?

Five billion years from now, the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than 100 times larger than its current size. It will also experience an intense mass loss through a very strong stellar wind. The end product of its evolution, 7 billion years from now, will be a tiny white dwarf star.
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What will happen to Earth in 2022?

Largest asteroid to approach Earth in 2022 will zoom past our planet this week. A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close to our planet in 2022.
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Will we see a supernova in 2022?

While scientists are confident a supernova will occur in 2022, whether it occurs in our galaxy is a different matter. In any given year, it is an unlikely prospect. On the other hand, one day it may just happen in our galactic neighbourhood. If it does, astronomers say they will be ready.
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Will the Sun become a black hole?

Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it's too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to end its life as a black hole.
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What if Earth had two suns?

When both suns were up, days would be much brighter. Nights would be different too because the suns would sometimes set at different times [source: Warren]. Still others suggest that the number of eclipses would increase as one sun moved in front of the other, maybe as often as once a week or so.
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Can you steal the moon?

Not enough money, not enough means. To 'steal' the moon you need to disturb its orbit. To disturb its orbit you need a heavy enough mass, at a trajectory and timing precisely to go past the moon to veer it off its orbit. The only kind of mass to pull it off in that time frame is another moon, perhaps one of Jupiters.
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