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An ESA study revealed that the Sun is going through a mid-life crisis. According to the ESA, the sun is currently exploding with solar flares. “As it begins to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star,” NASA said earlier.

Mid-life crisis of the sun: A study by the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that the celestial body responsible for giving us light, the Sun, is going through a mid-life crisis, a stage that all humans experience and one that clearly even the mighty star will could. to escape According to the ESA, the sun is currently exploding with solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar storms. It has entered its middle age, which is estimated to be about 4.57 billion years. The study was conducted with the help of data collected by the Gaia spacecraft. NASA, on the other hand, had earlier said in its report, “As it begins to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star, becoming so large that it will swallow Mercury and Venus, and possibly Earth. Scientists predict the Sun is a little less than halfway through its life and will take another 5 billion years or so before it becomes a white dwarf.” Back to the ESA study, the Sun is at the peak of its 11-year solar cycle, and as the cycle ends, the frequency of solar flares, coronal mass ejections and solar storms will decrease. As the Sun grows, the hydrogen in the Sun’s core will run out and the Sun will turn into a red giant star, lowering its surface temperature and cooling. According to the ESA, as the Sun reaches the end of its life cycle, it will become a faint white dwarf star. Orlagh Creevey of France’s Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur dug into the data by studying some of the oldest stars in our Galaxy with surface temperatures between 3000K and 10000K. Orlagh said: “We wanted to have a really clean sample of stars with high precision measurements.” The study concluded that the Sun will reach its maximum temperatures nearly 8 billion years into the future and then decrease its surface temperature and increase in size. (inputs from the European Space Agency report) Read more Scientific News