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The Death of the Sun

Season 4 Episode 13 | 9m 01s

What exactly will happen when the sun dies?

Aired: 02/20/18
Extras
Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
Can we change the color of a black hole?
Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.
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Is Dark Energy Getting Weaker?
Here’s the story we like to tell about the beginning of the universe.
We’ve never seen a TDE in the Milky Way, but we’ve seen them in distant galaxies.
Let’s talk about quantum gravity experiments that can be done here on Earth!
What if gravity isn’t weirdly quantum at all, but rather … just a bit messy?
Have we reached the end of the line of discoverable elements?
Can we change the color of a black hole?
Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.
Faster than light travel may produce gravitational waves that we could see here on Earth.
All particles belong to two large groups: fermions and bosons.