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To: SamAdams76

If we could seek shelter inside a domed city, it might be interesting to watch the outside world freeze to zero kelvin. But then if the Sun were to go out, would it be a neutron star or a black hole, or would its mass just vanish?


34 posted on 12/11/2004 11:32:25 AM PST by eagle11
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To: eagle11

When the sun does go out (in about 5 billion more years) it will have depleted enough hydrogen for gravity to cause the star to collapse to a white dwarf. It will still continue to radiate heat at a decreased rate for tens of billions of years after that, though. There's also the part about the red giant stage but that's for another post
:^)


56 posted on 12/11/2004 11:48:54 AM PST by spinestein (Intolerance will not be tolerated !)
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