The Transformation of the Sun

Annabell Cortez

What if the universe changes its course and the sun starts to transform itself and turn into a black hole and eventually end up as a white dwarf star? W hat would be your outlook in perceiving the upcoming permanent change in our solar system? What if the Sun’s destiny reached its final course, what would you do? These are just the possible questions to be answered once we get there. The Sun is known as the closest star that revolved in our solar system and it was believed that it has been existing for around 4.6 billion years. It was formed through a giant space cloud made of gas and dust collided with some super intense energy waves and collapsed on itself.

The Sun’s nuclear fusion reactions on its core and each second these huge nuclear reactor converts 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium which is the source of its heat and light. On the other hand, according to experts’ opinion and scientific speculations, billions of years from now the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and helium ash will build up in the Sun’s core that would become unstable resulting to its collapsed under its own weight. The core would be hotter and the Sun itself would be expanding and turn into a Red Giant that is big enough to swallow two nearby planets, Mercury and Venus. Even Earth, where we live in, would disappear inside this hot swollen star that would ignite helium inside the core and will suddenly create an enormous blaze.

What would happen next is the Sun, as a Red Giant, will turn into a red-giant branch that will expand 10 times larger than its normal size that would eventually end up in a white dwarf star with no significant power to give heat and light to support life system on Earth. At that rate, the next scene that will appear in our very naked eyes would be unbearable. The Sun would shine 10 % brighter which is good enough to make planet Earth show significant changes). The Earth would be baked with the same amount of heat. The oceans would start to evaporate and all the plants would burn to a crisp. Plant-eating animals would begin to starve and the waters of the oceans can boil a chicken in a snap.

With this intense transformation of the Sun, we are fortunate enough knowing that this event will occur billions of years from now. Still, we cannot deny the fact that although we are not directly responsible in the intergalactic transformation of the Sun, we are still capable of doing what is right for our Mother Earth to at least take part in mitigating the visible violent effect of the so-called “climate change” due to the inevitable permanent change hanging in the universe.

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