Future Big Bang specific predictions.
The constellations we recognize today will be vastly different in a million years due to what astromers call “proper motion” of stars. This will transform our night sky, creating new constellations from stars that have shifted positions, presenting future astronomers with a completely new celestial map to study. Because of stellar motion, our current Star […]
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The Lambda Cold Dark Matter model of the universe predicts a Big Freeze. The Big Freeze is projected sometime after 10100 years from now. That’s a set of googol years from now. After billions is trillions then quadrillion. After quadrillions is Quintillion, Sextillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion, Decillion, and finally a GOOGOL. This number is beyond
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Over an incredibly long timescale, the Sun’s white dwarf remnant could cool enough to become a black dwarf, a theoretical stellar remnant that emits no light. Although speculative, theoretical models give us insight into the lifespan of the Sun as a white dwarf. After transitioning into a white dwarf, the Sun is expected to cool
In about 50 to 100 billion years, then over tens of billions of years, gravitational interactions with other bodies and the loss of mass by the Sun as it becomes a white dwarf could cause the remaining planets’ orbits, including Earth’s (if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase), to decay or become unstable.
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After shedding its outer layers and engulfing the inner planets during its red giant phase, the Sun will leave behind a white dwarf. The remaining material could potentially form a new planetary system around this white dwarf.
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The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are expected to collide and merge into a single elliptical galaxy. Despite the dramatic nature of this event, the vast distances between stars mean that direct stellar collisions are unlikely.
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The death of our Sun is estimated to occur in about 5 billion years. Around this point, life on Earth will become uninhabitable. There will likely be life here right up until there’s not. Most humans will have left the planet many millions of years prior to this point. Also, the merging of the Andromeda
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