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What will happen to Jupiter when the sun becomes a red giant?
Jupiter will continue to orbit the Sun as it evolves into a red giant. Although the solar wind will be much much more powerful, it won’t have a significant effect on the overall mass of Jupiter. When the Sun loses its outer layers it will, in the last million years or so of its life, lose about half its mass.
What will happen to Pluto when the sun becomes a red giant?
“When the sun becomes a red giant, the temperatures on Pluto’s surface will be about the same as the average temperatures on Earth’s surface now,” Stern says. In research published in the journal Astrobiology in 2003, he looked at the prospects of life in the outer solar system after the sun enters its red giant phase.
Why will the sun become a red giant?
The burning hydrogen in the shell around the core significantly increases the brightness of the sun. Because the size of the star has expanded, the surface cools down and goes from white-hot to red-hot. Because the star is brighter, redder and physically larger than before, we dub these stars “red giants”.
When the sun becomes a red giant its quizlet?
When the Sun becomes a red giant, its energy source will be the fusion of hydrogen to helium in a shell around the core and the gravitational contraction of the core. No nuclear fusion will take place in the core itself when the Sun is a red giant. What is the product of helium fusion? When does it begin in a 1 M star?
What happens to Jupiter when the sun dies?
When that hydrogen runs out, the Sun will become a red giant. Its core will contract under gravity and the outer layers will expand past the orbit of Mercury. The Earth will very likely be engulfed by the Sun in about 8 billion years.
Does the sun affect Jupiter?
The sun is about 1,000 times more massive than Jupiter, and these two bodies affect one another proportionally according to distance and mass, so the amount Jupiter’s gravity pulls on the sun is one-thousandth the amount the sun’s gravity pulls on Jupiter.