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Originally Posted by golfing eagles

In about 3 billion years, our sun will die out in a supernova. About 1 billion years before that the sun will expand and envelop the Earth in it's corona, thus incinerating us. At that time, TV real estate will still be selling "the final phase"

The sun has too little mass to explode supernova style. It will shrink into a white dwarf after it's red giant phase