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The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Cincinnati, Ohio When the Sun runs out of hydrogen fuel and expands into a red giant, it will eventually encompass the innermost planets of the solar system, out to about Earth’s orbit.

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Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

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Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

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Passing stars could trigger instability across the solar system, resulting in Earth being hauled out of its orbit.

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