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A star like the sun has about enough hydrogen to burn on the main sequence for about 12 billion years. Our sun has been burning for about 6 billion, so we have about 6 billion more before it switches to helium -> carbon burning, becomes a red giant and consumes all the inner planets out to and including earth.

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