{"id":156114,"date":"2023-01-24T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/sun-will-eventually-expand-to-some-300-times-its-current-size-says-study"},"modified":"2023-01-24T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T13:23:59","slug":"sun-will-eventually-expand-to-some-300-times-its-current-size-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/sun-will-eventually-expand-to-some-300-times-its-current-size-says-study","title":{"rendered":"Sun Will Eventually Expand To Some 300 Times Its Current Size, Says Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sun-will-eventually-expand-to-some-300-times-its-current-size-says-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent observational study of some 191 giant stars at the end of their lives as hydrogen-burning, main sequence stars, places more precise parameters our own star\u2019s expansionary endgame. The Sun will finish its life at perhaps two to three hundred times its current angular size.<\/p>\n<p>The observations were made between 1996 and 2008 with the now defunct Palomar Testbed Interferometer atop Mount Palomar in southern California. They were coupled with data from the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Hipparcos and Gaia missions to more accurately calculate the stars\u2019 distances and effective temperatures.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>New survey of giant stars reveals details about the Sun\u2019s own likely endgame as an expanding red giant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent observational study of some 191 giant stars at the end of their lives as hydrogen-burning, main sequence stars, places more precise parameters our own star\u2019s expansionary endgame. The Sun will finish its life at perhaps two to three hundred times its current angular size. The observations were made between 1996 and 2008 with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}