/data/photo/2022/08/28/630ae31d61ebe.jpg "Enter the Middle Ages, scientists predict the age and remaining life of the sun")
KOMPA.com – Sun as the center of the Earth’s solar system, it will likely go through middle age.
This according to the data published in June 2022 by the Gaia spacecraft.
According to spacecraft estimates, age of the sun is 4.57 billion years old.
The European Space Agency Observatory is credited with providing the most accurate map of the universe that is said to be able to determine when the Sun will die.
Launched in 2013, the Gaia space observatory is expected to be operational until 2025.
European space agency designed Gaia for astrometry, measuring the positions, distances and movements of stars with unprecedented precision.
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When does the sun die?
Analyzing the data from Gaia, scientists concluded that the Sun will reach its maximum temperature when it reaches about 8 billion years.
At that moment, the Sun will cool down, enlarge and become a red giant star.
In 1.011 billion years, the Sun will reach the end of its life cycle.
Orlagh Creevey of the Observatoire de la Cte d’Azur France said it is important to continue to research and learn about the sun.
“If we don’t understand our Sun and there’s so much we don’t know about it, how can we hope to understand all the other stars that make up our beautiful galaxy,” he said.
The European Space Agency added that the Sun will eventually become a weak white dwarf and reach the end of its life.
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The latest data on Gaia and the evolution of the Sun
The tilt axis of the Earth as it rotates around the Sun-
The latest data contains information on the many stars, their compositions and temperatures.
Scientists used this data to determine how the Sun will evolve in the future.
The data show that the Sun combines hydrogen into helium and is generally stable.
This information follows the news of the Sun’s bursting in gusts Sunsolar storms and coronal mass ejections.
The sun, a giant star, will eventually die: the process will begin when its core runs out of hydrogen.
At this moment the fusion process will begin which will turn into a red giant star and lower the surface temperature of the Sun.
However, the process depends on the mass of the star and its chemical composition.
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Orlagh Creevey looked at the data for the most accurate stellar observations and focused on stars with surface temperatures between 3,000 K and 10,000 K because these are the longest-lived stars and can reveal the Milky Way’s history.
“We wanted to have a completely pure stellar sample with high precision measurements,” said Creevey.
The same is filtered to show only stars that have the same chemical composition and mass as the Sun.
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