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Will the sun become a red supergiant?

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No, our sun will not become a red supergiant; it does not have enough mass for that. However, our sun will become a red giant. This is due to happen in approximately five billion years when the sun start to undergo the nuclear fusion of helium instead of hydrogen.

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As dwarf stars go, the Sun is kind of middling. Or maybe it's large. It sort of depends on how you count.

See, the Sun is a yellow dwarf. Yellow dwarfs tend to be about middle-of-the road if you just look at the various colors of stars, and what size they are.

However, if you look at them in comparison to how manythere are...

By far the majority of stars that we know of are red dwarfs... about 85%. The Sun is therefore automatically in about the top ten percent or so of all stars by mass.

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No. Red dwarfs are M-type main sequence stars. The sun is A G-type main sequence star, also called a yellow dwarf, larger and much brighter than a red dwarf.

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No. While the sun emits more light per square meter of its surface than a red giant does, a red giant has a much larger surface area and so emits more light overall.

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Never. In about 5 billion years the sun's hydrogen fuel will run out and it will expand into a red giant and, after another 2 billion years, collapse into a white dwarf.

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It cannot.

It will become a red giant in about 5 billion years.

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