Sun Will Eventually Boil Earth's Seas as It Loses Mass and Burns Hotter, Scientist Says
At a Glance According to astrophysicist Ethan Siegel, the sun is ever-so-gradually getting lighter and expanding into a red gas giant.Eventually it will burn so hot that it will boil Earth's seas away.That won't happen for at least a billion years, however. Before the sun dies in about 10 billion years, its decreasing mass will make the star hotter and hotter, eventually boiling Earth's seas away, a scientist said. Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel wrote in an article for Forbes this week...
The Greatest Photo Ever Taken from a Plane?
Jon Carmichael's eclipse masterpiece, 108. (Jon Carmichael) At a Glance Photographer Jon Carmichael took 1,200 photos in three minutes.His eclipse mosaic is the product of hundreds of hours of work.After a year of work, it was unveiled at Twitter's New York offices. Some are calling this photographer's eclipse photo the best of all time — and he took it from his window seat on a commercial flight. The photograph, called108, is a mosaic, a year-long synthesis of 1,200 photos taken...