• Question: when will our sun become a dwarf star? will it?

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      Asked by xX_OldmanBamanaboni_Xx to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 13 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Robert Williams

        Robert Williams answered on 13 Jun 2016:

        In about 5000 million years the Sun will change to become a white dwarf at the centre of a Planetary nebula.
        You can find out more about how it may look by taking a peek at hubblesite.org – the HST has imaged many Planetary nebulae and many look like ‘bugs’

      • Photo: John Fossey

        John Fossey answered on 13 Jun 2016:

        Robert has the answer here.

      • Photo: Laura Finney

        Laura Finney answered on 16 Jun 2016:

        One day it will. Prof. Brian Cox has a great series on this kind of thing on Netflix that I watched recently so if you have Netlfix I recommend that. It’ll answer many of the questions you have about the universe!

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