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Red giant
Late stage of a star whose core hydrogen is gone: it swells to hundreds of times its width.
Concept
Identifiers
Wikidata Q50081
Appears in
6 items
History of the Universe
2 items
The Sun as a red giant
5 Ga AP
Earth is probably swallowed
7.59 Ga AP
The Far Future
4 items
The Sun swells into a red giant
c. 5.75 Ga AP
Titan warms up
c. 6 Ga AP
Mercury, Venus and probably Earth are swallowed
7.59 Ga AP
The Sun burns helium
7.59 Ga AP
Sources
Article
Our Sun. III. Present and Future