[spinestein]

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
:^)

[eagle11]

I thought this scenario called for an instant "outage", by the time the epistellar Sun sheds its outer shell of plasma, the Earth will be little more than a burning cinder. Then the freezing would be no fun to watch.