For billions of years the Sun has been the perpetual, life-giving star in our sky. It's a force of immense power, yet one we take for granted in our every day lives. But like all things, it too must eventually end. Today, we chronicle the future of our home star, its various phases, why this all happens, and the final fate of our Solar System.

Written and presented by Prof David Kipping. Edited by Jorge Casas. Thanks to Matt Scoggins for checking the script.

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::References::
► Schröder & Smith, 2008, "Distant future of the Sun and Earth revisited", MNRAS, 386, 155: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4031

::Music::
Music licensed by SoundStripe.com (SS) [shorturl.at/ptBHI], Artlist.io, via Creative Commons (CC) Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., or with permission from the artist.
► Hill - Pinhole of Light [https://open.spotify.com/track/1gJEKP...]
► Chris Zabriskie - Stories About the World That Once Was
► Falls - Ripley
► Hill - Don't Think [https://open.spotify.com/track/1KUcWR...]
► Hill - A Slowly Lifting Fog [https://open.spotify.com/track/0GgkyL...]
► Chris Zabriskie - The Ocean's Continue to Rise
► Joachim Heinrich - Y
► Indive - Fusion

::Chapters::
00:00 Introduction
02:06 The Modern Sun
06:41 Leaving the Main Sequence
09:49 Sub-Giant Phase
12:24 Giant Mode
17:05 The Helium Flash
19:07 A Second Life
20:58 Asymptotic Hell
23:25 The White Dwarf Sun
25:38 The Bitter End
27:54 Outro & Credits

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