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an image of the sun taken from space with red light in it's center

Since the beginning of human history, people have understood that the sun is a central part of life as we know it. It's importance to countless mythological and cosmological systems across the globe is a testament to this. But as our understand of it matured, we came to learn that the sun was here long before us, and will be here long after we're gone. Having formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago, our sun began its life roughly 40 million years before our Earth had formed.

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an image of the sun taken from space with red light in it's center

Red dwarfs are the universe’s longest-lived stars due to their small size and efficient fuel consumption. Unlike massive stars that burn through their hydrogen quickly, red dwarfs burn fuel at a slower, steadier rate. A unique trait of red dwarfs is that they are fully convective, allowing hydrogen from all parts of the star to mix into the core, making nearly all of their fuel available for fusion. This efficient process enables them to live for trillions of years, far longer than larger…

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Betelgeuse, the reddish star in the right shoulder of Orion, is a supergiant whose girth extends out to the orbit of Jupiter. It could be the next star in the sky to go supernova.

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