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officemonkey on Dec 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: NASA Confirms Its First Planet in Habitable Zone o...

In the long run, our sun will age, and could expand to a red giant phase where our planet would become uninhabitable.

Scientists believe this will happen in billions of years, but it could happen tomorrow.

ceejayoz on Dec 6, 2011 [–]

> Scientists believe this will happen in billions of years, but it could happen tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure that statement flies in the face of astrophysics.

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