Will the sun turn into a white dwarf?

Like the vast majority of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, the sun will eventually collapse into a white dwarf, an exotic object about 200,000 times denser than Earth. “The sun itself will become a crystal white dwarf in about 10 billion years.”

Will the sun become a red giant?

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will begin the helium-burning process, turning into a red giant star. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus, and reach Earth.

What would happen if the sun turned into a white dwarf?

The sun as a white dwarf When the sun is a white dwarf, most of the solar system will still be around. Mercury, Venus and Earth will be gone, but Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will survive and continue to go around the sun. So will the asteroid belt, Kuiper belt and dwarf planets like Pluto.

Can the Sun become black?

No. Stars like the Sun just aren’t massive enough to become black holes. Instead, in several billion years, the Sun will cast off its outer layers, and its core will form a white dwarf – a dense ball of carbon and oxygen that no longer produces nuclear energy, but that shines because it is very hot.

Will the Sun ever become a white dwarf?

So, will the Sun become a White Dwarf? The short answer is yes, eventually (scientists estimate this will occur in around 5 billion years). The Sun will become a White Dwarf following an interim phase of being a Red Giant.

Will the Sun end up as a red giant?

At that point, again a really, REALLY long time from now, it is theorized that the sun will spend the rest of it’s days as a Black Dwarf. So tldr is the sun will end up as a white white dwarf or maybe, if theories are correct a Black Dwarf. It will spend time as a red giant but no star ends up as a red giant.

What is a red giant white dwarf?

Through time, this Red Giant will shrink and cool, into a smaller denser mass and what scientists and Astronomers refer to as White Dwarfs. Interestingly, White Dwarfs are actually similar in mass to the Sun, despite its significantly smaller size (around the size of Planet Earth).

When does a star become a white dwarf or neutron star?

If the remaining core is less than about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, then it becomes a white dwarf. If it’s more than about 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, then it becomes a neutron star or black hole (discussed in Chapter 13 ). The evolution of stars depends on their mass, with the most massive stars becoming black holes.