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[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And won't happen for hundreds of millions, to a billion plus years.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Thought it was 5 billion but at this point i don't recall

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's until the life cycle of the sun ends and all it's nuclear fuel will run out, forcing it into red giant, then white dwarf, forms. However, the sun will have expanded enough to make Earth uninhabitable, from what I can find, somewhere in the the neighborhood of 700ish million years, to 1.3 billion years.