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Is our sun a white dwarf star?

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main sequence, a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness
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the Sun (the celestial body, Latin: Sol)
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Is The Sun, the star responsible for the formation of the Solar System a main sequence, a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness that has the attribute white, not a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings?
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No. It is billions of years old,however. It must first become a red giant, which will happen in five billion years, which is all anyone shall see,then a white dwarf,then a black one,then it shall explode.
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Posted at 18:43 on May 20, 2011.
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No. It is billions of years old,however. It must first become a red giant, which will happen in five billion years,then a white dwarf,then a black one.
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Posted at 18:46 on May 20, 2011.
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No. It is billions of years old,however. It must first become a red giant, then a white dwarf,then a black one.
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White Dwarfs - Introduction
Planetary nebulae seem to mark the transition of a medium mass star from red giant to white dwarf. Stars that are comparable in mass to our Sun will become white dwarfs within ...
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dwarfs.html
White Dwarfs
A white dwarf is what stars like the Sun become after they have ... of the evolution of our Sun (left) through the red giant stage (center) and onto a white dwarf (right).
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/dwarfs.html
White dwarf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... on Nearby Stars project counted eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun. The ... is not high enough to become a neutron star—over 97% of the stars in our ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf_star
The Sun as a White Dwarf Star
Once things calm down, a small sparkling jewel of a white dwarf star will remain. This tiny remnant will have a mass of around half that of our present Sun, but will be the size of ...
http://www.universetoday.com/25669/the-sun-as-a-white-dwarf-star/
Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... is the extremely hot stellar core, which will slowly cool and fade as a white dwarf ... in the universe had been synthesized by nuclear reactions inside stars, some like our Sun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

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