Solar Lifetime

Understanding the dynamics of our Sun is an important foundation for understanding stars in general. Much effort has gone into modeling the processes in the Sun, and those models describe the evolution of the Sun to the main sequence, its main sequence lifetime, and the anticipated future evolution off the main sequence.

Stellar lifetimes
Index

Solar System Illustration

Solar System Concepts

Reference
Harwit
Ch 8
 
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