{"id":3927315,"date":"2026-08-03T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-to-keep-the-earth-habitable-when-the-sun-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:02:46","slug":"how-to-keep-the-earth-habitable-when-the-sun-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/how-to-keep-the-earth-habitable-when-the-sun-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"How to keep the Earth habitable when the sun dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In a billion years, the sun will start to run out of fuel and expand to become a red giant. Earth&#8217;s oceans and atmosphere will be burned away, and Earth will likely be engulfed by the sun altogether. The sun will then shrink to a dim white dwarf, and all light and warmth in the solar system will diminish. In a hundred trillion years, the galaxy&#8217;s ability to produce stars will be exhausted, and everything will turn dark. However, there&#8217;s a way for life to escape this fate\u2014and what&#8217;s more, we wouldn&#8217;t need to leave the planet to do it. We just need to build some safeguards.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-earth-habitable-sun-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a billion years, the sun will start to run out of fuel and expand to become a red giant. Earth&#8217;s oceans and atmosphere will be burned away, and Earth will likely be engulfed by the sun altogether. The sun will then shrink to a dim white dwarf, and all light and warmth in the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}