ABSTRACT
When the Sun ends its main sequence life it will swell in size to become a red giant. If the Sun suffers no appreciable mass loss in this transition then it will engulf the Earth (Rev. Mod. Phys., 1997, 69, 341).
When the Sun ends its main sequence life it will swell in size to become a red giant. If the Sun suffers no appreciable mass loss in this transition then it will engulf the Earth (Rev. Mod. Phys., 1997, 69, 341).