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Published online 9 May 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010510-7
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The end is shy
Time and tide may send our planet up in a puff of smoke.
About seven billion years from now our Sun will start to expire. In its initial death throes it will become a 'red giant' star large enough to engulf our planet, spelling the end for life on Earth.
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