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By Brian Cox

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Professor Brian Cox exhibits us our universe as we've by no means noticeable it earlier than. during this brief he explains how this mammoth and complicated universe – the topic of human fascination and clinical exploration for hundreds of thousands of years – will finish. Taken from his bestselling, astonishing exploration of house, Wonders of the Universe.

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This move from hydrogen to helium fusion has profound results: to begin with, adequate strength is published to halt the stellar cave in, so the big name stabilises and quickly swells. this is often the start of its lifestyles as a crimson huge. Secondly, it fuses into life the point very important for all times: carbon-12. this can be the place the entire carbon within the Universe comes from; each carbon atom in each residing factor on this planet was once produced within the middle of a demise superstar. Our sunlight is certainly one of a minimum of 2 hundred billion stars in our galaxy; one in every of 100 billion galaxies within the observable universe. we are living in a cosmos of numerous islands of numerous stars which shower the Universe in mild. The solar was once shaped four. fifty seven billion years in the past, and is in the course of its existence, fusing hydrogen into helium at a cost of round six hundred million tonnes each moment. it's going to proceed to do that for one more 5 billion years; yet finally, maybe fittingly given the grandeur and sweetness it has nurtured in its empire, it won’t easily fade away. because the shops of hydrogen run dry, the Sun’s middle will cave in and momentarily, as helium starts off to fuse into oxygen and carbon, a final free up of strength will reason its outer layers to extend. The fiery floor of our superstar will movement past Mercury, in the direction of Venus and onwards to our fragile global. the consequences on our planet can be as catastrophic as they're convinced. progressively, the Earth turns into warmer. within the far away destiny, if any of our descendants nonetheless stay, somebody will event the final ideal day in the world. because the floor of the solar encroaches, our oceans will boil away, the molecules in our surroundings could be agitated off into house, and the reminiscence of lifestyles in the world will fade … Long after lifestyles has disappeared, the sunlight will fill the horizon; it will possibly expand past Earth itself. This swollen level in a star’s lifestyles is called the crimson great part, marked through the ultimate unlock of strength and the start of a protracted decline. In a stunning reveal of sunshine and color, our solar will shed its outer layers into house to shape a planetary nebula. we all know this simply because we've seen this series spread within the ultimate breath of far-off stars – on anyone else’s sunlight? Written around the evening sky in filamentary patches of color are the echoes of our destiny. If within the a ways destiny, someplace within the Universe, astronomers on a global no longer but shaped gaze via a telescope at our planetary nebula and contemplate its good looks, they might glimpse at its middle a faintly gleaming ember; all that continues to be of a celeb we as soon as regarded as fabulous. she's going to be smaller than the scale of Earth, below a millionth of her present quantity and a fragment of her brightness. Our solar could have develop into a white dwarf – the future of just about the entire stars in our galaxy. If our planet survives, little greater than a scorched and barren rock will stay. this is often the main profound end result of the arrow of time; this Universe can't final without end. As we go through the aeons forward, numerous billions of stars will reside and die.

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