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Modelling suggests that the planets’ orbits will become destabilized inside one billion years once the Sun starts to shed mass.
The Sun’s transformation as it dies could be much more erratic than has been previously proposed. Credit: Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library
The Sun’s tumultuous death could spell the end of our Solar System one billion times sooner than previously thought1.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03155-3
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