Yes, in a way. There will come a point when there is not enough hydrogen left inside the sun to produce enough energy to resist its own gravity. When this happens, the sun will first implode under its own weight, rapidly compressing its core, starting a new fusion reaction (instead of consuming hydrogen and producing helium, it will begin to consume helium and produce heaver elements such as carbon or oxygen). This will cause the sun to explode outward into a much red giant. It will get big enough that it will swallow up most, if not all, of the inner planets (Anything still living on earth at this point will most certainly be killed). This implosion followed by explosion may happen several more times, before the star shrinks down to the point of being a white dwarf. After this, over the course of billions of years, it is thought, it will eventually consume all of its remaining fuel and fade into a black dwarf.

No, the Sun will not explode. To explode indicates that the internal forces will eventually overcome gravity and violently tear the Sun apart. This is not the fate in store for the Sun. As Clark described, the Sun will eventually start to burn helium to produce Carbon. However, that is as far as it will go. The Sun does not have enough mass to generate the heat required to burn carbon to produce heavier elements. As helium builds up in the Sun's core, the hydrogen fusion will move to higher levels in the Sun. This will more strongly heat the outer layers of the Sun causing them to expand. (This is not an explosion.) The Sun will eventually expand to swallow Earth and possibly even Mars. At the same time the core will contract raising the temperature until helium fuses to produce Carbon. The Helium will be burned up fairly quickly. Once it is gone, the core will begin to collapse down to a white dwarf and the outer layers will relatively quietly separate from the core and move outward to form a planetary nebula (http://tinyurl.com/dhsej). This is the fate that awaits the sun. FYI, when astronomers talk about a star exploding, they are usually talking about some sort of nova or supernova. The Sun has nowhere near enough mass to do that.

Sunday evening or maybe Monday, I'm pretty certain its going to wait until after the Superbowl. Brad

The sun, as we others know it as "SOL" , the life giver, will supernova in the 36th centuary . Earth will be destroyed. You must understand the forces that the planet, Earth, is face with. We are going to die. Else, someone find a solution to get a number of people in space ships find another habitable planet , there is no other way to save mankind!

Yes, the sun wil eventully explode. BUT we still have 5,000 million years to find a way to evacuate or even move our planet to another star or soloar system.

Will our sun eventually explode? The answer is definitely “Yes! Just like other stars it will eventually explode.” Our sun is a star located at the center of our Solar System. It is a huge, spinning ball of hot gas and nuclear reactions that lights up the Earth and provides us with heat. According to some scientists, the Sun is very slowly expanding and getting brighter right now. Once the Sun will run out of hydrogen and helium in its core completely, a different nuclear reaction will take place and it will become a Red Giant ball. Then, it will explode into a planetary nebula, a giant shell of gas will destroy the planets in the Solar System including Earth. The Creator of this whole cosmos decided long time ago to destroy the heaven and the earth by fire at the Day of Judgment. For the Scripture says, "...the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up." (2 Peter 3:10 KJV). All the things shall be burned up and dissolved. Then, God will create a new heaven and a new earth. God Almighty said, “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Isaiah 65:17 KJV). And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. (Revelation 21:1 KJV). The Word of God warns us, as Jesus Christ said, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. The final result has been prophesied long time ago, as the Scripture says - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. (Isaiah 60:19 KJV). And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Revelation 21:23 KJV). Next Question: When will the sun eventually explode? The answer is in the Bible (Could it be Matthew 24:14?).

No..it will more than likey(no time real soon dooms dayers) Implode

The sun is constantly exploding, it is a gigantic re-ocurring nuclear reaction.

either way we will all be dead by the time the sun either explodes, implodes or just dissappears into nothingness! does it really matter that much, we will be long gone! and note to erwinp whats GOD got to do with it!!!! NOTHING! there is no god!

Like all great things the Sun will just "fade away"

No, the next stage is white dwarf. It will turn so hot it will incinerate all the existing planets in it's orbit, including earth.

There is some debate about it, but the general consensus is that the sun does not have enough mass to explode.

Wouldn't that be really cool? :)

heaven forbid i sure hope not. at least i hope i die before then

Glenn Blaylock is right: read this The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another five billion years or so. At the end of its life, the Sun will start to fuse helium into heavier elements and begin to swell up, ultimately growing so large that it will swallow the Earth. After a billion years as a red giant, it will suddenly collapse into a white dwarf -- the final end product of a star like ours. It may take a trillion years to cool off completely. http://www.solarviews.com/eng/sun.htm ============= no explosion, but an implosion. =============== Question: Will the sun ever burn up? prairie view Answer: When the sun has fused all of the hydrogen atoms into helium atoms it will be finished. It would then start to cool and expand. Unfortunately we think it would expand out beyond earth's orbit. We would be cooked. This is not expected to happen for millions of years. It is hard to think that humans will still be around. We will have left or may not have survived. Nothing to worry about for the next several million years. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/ast99/ast99248.htm =========== No explosion here either. An expansion, then a collapse.

Must of you folks don't know that stars implode. They do not explode. Planets explode! Consider volcanoes which are explosions from inner earth. Internal pressure such as this, in the extreme, can cause a planet to explode. There are the many asteroids and meteors in space and I believe this space debris was once planets. There are many collisions in space. Luckily, earth has been spared so far. Our sun is a star! This large star will eventually become superheated resulting in a supernova whereupon the sun will collapse and become a small black hole. Sorry!

It will IMPLODE in about 5 million years. I only get this answer. because the life span of a star like our sun, and others, is estimated to be about 10 million years.

No. It will burn as now until some billion years into the future (when noone of us are alive), and then become a red giant star. All life on the Earth will die, and probably also the Earth will burn. Then it will become a white dwarf star, and finally fade away. Maybe (I wonder if the remaining planets in the Solar System will leave their orbitis).

All stars die. It will not happen within our lifetime. How it will happen is a matter of debate.

yes, but not before tuesday...

Yes, it will. Scientists say it is still a young star, so Im not worrying.

We will never know we will be dead by the time the sun dies out, and there is 2 path the sun can take, explode into supernova or the white dwarf stage

We will never know we will be dead by the time the sun dies out, and there is 2 path the sun can take, explode into supernova or the white dwarf stage

It's next stage (or so it is believed) is to become a white dwarf getting smaller but much hotter and turning Earth into a cinder. And it's collapse into a dwarf is just around the corner (about 5 million years yo...).

glen is very very very wrong the sun will explode one day.by the time its red giant after a billion years the center of the core will get bigger and will explode.scientist predict that this is going to happen in 2012 in less then 3 years so we need to be prepared.when that year happens the original sun will be a red giant which is even more bigger and much cooler than our sun.please please trust me.