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Our Solar System Is Going to Totally Disintegrate Sooner Than We Thought – ScienceAlert
Although the ground beneath our feet feels solid and reassuring (most of the time), nothing in this Universe lasts forever.
Although the ground beneath our feet feels solid and reassuring (most of the time), nothing in this Universe lasts forever.
One day, our Sun will die, ejecting a large proportion of its mass before its core shrinks down into a white dwarf, gradually leaking heat until it’s nothing more than a cold, dark, dead lump of rock, a thousand trillion years later.
But the rest of the Solar System will be long gone by then. According to new simulations, it will take just 100 billion years for any remaining…
