• Question: What will happen if the sun crashes into Earth

    Asked by alesha to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 12 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      The planet will probably burn up long before the sun actually hit the Earth.

      What’s worry is that eventually the sun will expand into a red giant. It will be so big, where the Earth is now will actually be inside of it! That’s not for a few billion years though.

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