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How old is the Sun and how long will it live?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The Sun is about 4.57 billion years into its main-sequence stage and when we think of its age, that’s the number generally agreed on. You can think of this as the relatively stable period in a star’s life after it forms and during which it converts Hydrogen into Helium in a process known as nuclear [...]

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