The end of the solar system

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3076, 2016, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People's star is not destined to explode as a supernova, hurling its planets into space. It's just not massive enough. But when it finally burns through its supply of hydrogen some six billion years from now, the great sphere of hot plasma at the center of the solar system will grow so spectacularly bloated and bright that it will transform the cosmic neighborhood forever. Like most stars, the sun is a main sequence star: in its core, nuclear fusion generates energy by converting hydrogen to helium. Once all the hydrogen there has been consumed, a layer of hydrogen around the core will ignite, and the extra heat produced will overcome the gravity that was keeping the sun from ballooning. Here, Sokol looks at on how solar system will end