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will earth survive the sun becoming a red dwarf?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The sun is not in line to become a red dwarf, a red giant yes. The Earth will probably survive the event despite spend a long period of time within the suns corona , nothing living or volatile will survive that. It will eventually burn down to a white dwarf, eventually turning into a black dwarf.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The Sun will not become a Red Dwarf, it will become a Red Giant and then a White Dwarf. And, while the actual physical planet may not be totally burned away when the outer layers of the Red Giant Sun engulfs it, there will definitely be no life left on the planet.

  • 5 years ago

    After the white dwarf cools, our sun might be called a red dwarf in about 15 billion years. If Earth survives red giant in about 4 billion years, Earth will be unaffected by the transition to red dwarf.

  • 5 years ago

    You mean RED GIANT right?

    If Newton's third law works ( for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction). The force of the sun may push the earth as it expands. Scientists have done research in 2008 and have found the suns gravitational pull has weakned, resulting in the earth slowly moving outoward the sun in response.

    But most likely as the scientists are predicting the earth will be swallowed up by the sun. But even if the earth survives we will not from the hot UV light.

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  • 5 years ago

    The Sun will not become a red dwarf but it will become a red giant. We don't know if Earth will suvive when the Sun becomes a red giant. A red dwarf is the first stage in its lifespan.

  • 5 years ago

    Not unless an advanced civilization moved Earth farther from the sun. Which is a distinct possibility. As things stand, when the sun becomes a red giant, the Earth will be inside the sun, and it will be worn down and mixed with the material of the sun. The inside of the sun will be slightly more metallic when it's DONE as a result.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    The sun will become a red giant and then end up as a white dwarf once its nuclear fuel is exhausted.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Sun already is in state of the red dwarf ,which one day atmosphere of the sun will claps and core will explode or will die .Earth will not survive that condition and radiation will burn the earth surface same as mars surface .

  • 5 years ago

    you mean a red giant.... The sun will begin to run low of hydrogen, and compress a bit, adding heat and pressure to the helium core - causing it to begin fusing into carbon; it's this reaction that will cause the sun to expand, up to 1000 times larger than it is now - consuming Mercury, Venus, and finally the Earth in the process.

    No... Earth won't survive.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Yes, because the Sun is NOT going to become a red dwarf star. Sarcasm fail.

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