The Sun will someday destroy the asteroid belt before it dies

The Sun will someday destroy the asteroid belt before it dies

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Science, Other, Physics

11th Grade - University

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The video explains the sun's transition into the giant branch phase, where it will expand and increase its luminance. This energy will affect the asteroid belt, causing asteroids to spin faster and break apart due to the York Effect. Over billions of years, these asteroids will become small fragments. Eventually, the sun will collapse into a white dwarf, absorbing the asteroid debris and altering its spectra, which explains the presence of asteroid elements in many white dwarfs.

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