Survival of the Earth and the future evolution of the Sun

✍ Scribed by Samuel C. Vila

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0794
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00058908

✦ Synopsis

The question of the survival of the planet Earth as the Sun becomes a red giant and possibly a planetary nebula depends on the maximum extent of the Sun's envelope. This study shows that if the Earth is reached by this envelope, it will be destroyed; but if it is not, it will survive. Present stellar evolution calculations imply that the Earth will be destroyed.