THE sun will evolve to engulf the Earth, along with Mercury and Venus in an event which will mark the end of life as we know it in the distant future, a scientist warned during a radio show.
It is nearly a perfect sphere of hot plasma and is made up of roughly 74 per cent of hydrogen, 25 per cent of helium and 1 per cent of a mixture of elements. star takes 600 tonnes of this hydrogen and fuses it into helium every second, converting matter into energy – or light and heat.The sun currently sits in what is known as the main sequence, a band of stars in hydrostatic equilibrium – meaning it is resting at a constant point due to external forces such as gravity.
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