Giant star

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Synopsis: Space: Space generale: Celestial body: Star: Giant star:


newscientist 00240.txt

when the sun becomes a red giant in 6 billion years. A lot of things can happen in 6 billion years


newscientist 00453.txt

or big and bloated like a red giant the type of star the sun will swell into in about 5 billion years.

That's probably because each granule spans some two dozen times the width of the Earth in a giant star compared to just a fraction of the Earth's diameter in a compact star.


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