Sort of like studying when the Sun is going to explode into a dwarf star. I wonder if the grant money was tied to AGW.
I think the leading hypothesis on the sun is that its shell is going to expand out to the orbit of at least the first asteroid belt; maybe out to the orbit of Jupiter. Then it will collapse into a red dwarf after having vaporized Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and the asteroid belt. Then it will remain like that for billions of years until it cools, finally turning into a dark mass of what was formerly a life-giving star.
It’s not big enough to go nova.