1) What was the prior belief regarding the sun's life cycle?
The prior belief of our sun's fate was that sit would slowly grow and then it would turn into a red giant and then it would explode. The next sequence in the sun's fate is that it would spread out over the entire inner solar system and would be known as a nebulae.
2) What does the new evidence suggest?
The evidence suggests that the sun has to be 20% heavier than what it is, to become a nebulae. So without a companion or another star or such the sun will not become a nebula.
3) What impact does this evidence have on our understanding of the sun's future?
The sun may not explode and the earth and all of its people will continue living. The creatures of earth can continue on for generations according to this. This is a hypothesis though. Also evidence and information are being accumulated for a better understanding to prove this hypothesis wrong or right.
4) Explain the relationship between gravity and fusion that keeps our sun in its current state.
The sun's size makes it have the perfect amount of gravity pressing down on it. The fusion is the sun's core sending out photons, so it is exploding from the inside. The pressure of gravity holds the sun together and intact.
5) What do you find most fascinating about solar science?
I find it fascinating on how different the sun is from what we know, how we get our rays of heat,and how reliant we are on the sun. The astronomy of the sun is very complicated and dangerous, which interests me.
The prior belief of our sun's fate was that sit would slowly grow and then it would turn into a red giant and then it would explode. The next sequence in the sun's fate is that it would spread out over the entire inner solar system and would be known as a nebulae.
2) What does the new evidence suggest?
The evidence suggests that the sun has to be 20% heavier than what it is, to become a nebulae. So without a companion or another star or such the sun will not become a nebula.
3) What impact does this evidence have on our understanding of the sun's future?
The sun may not explode and the earth and all of its people will continue living. The creatures of earth can continue on for generations according to this. This is a hypothesis though. Also evidence and information are being accumulated for a better understanding to prove this hypothesis wrong or right.
4) Explain the relationship between gravity and fusion that keeps our sun in its current state.
The sun's size makes it have the perfect amount of gravity pressing down on it. The fusion is the sun's core sending out photons, so it is exploding from the inside. The pressure of gravity holds the sun together and intact.
5) What do you find most fascinating about solar science?
I find it fascinating on how different the sun is from what we know, how we get our rays of heat,and how reliant we are on the sun. The astronomy of the sun is very complicated and dangerous, which interests me.