In ~4.5 billion years, the sun is predicted to become a red giant star. As the sun expands, it will swallow up most of the inner planets. When I explain this to people, they worry about where humanity will be. Will we have moved to Mars? Is that far enough? Will we have figured out interstellar travel? Will we live on space cruise ships like in the movie Wall*E? Will we have escaped the self-destruction that the greatest minds on Earth predict?
I often think about the outer planets and how the environment will change when the sun becomes a red giant. Could our ancestors in billions (or maybe millions) of years be living, scattered about the warmed up moons of Jupiter and Saturn?
Is that too optimistic a consideration?
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Posted by HumanistJohnImages taken with Stellina (80 mm): M33 Triangulum Galaxy M1 Crab Nebula NGC281 Pacman Nebula in Cassiopeia NGC 6992 Veil Nebula in Cygnus
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