What will the solar system look like in 500 million years?
The answer may be terrifying

The length of the entire universe is almost inconceivable to human beings... Our history, like the evolution of life, continues to expand. But for every achievement and invention, war and cultural landmark we've ever encountered, it only happened at most 300,000 years ago. We can see a lot more from this by comparing them to list our future solar systems.
This veil and the solar system we can't touch today, like it was 500 million years ago. Are you a friend of facts? Are you constantly anxious? Now why use a lot of clips like this one to describe? And call some attractive catalogs! To better understand the temporal scale of the solar system, we can look at the data and list the main points. The solar system is about 4.5 billion years old. We all know the universe itself is 13.8 billion years old. So it took a long time to form the solar system in the first place. In the beginning, according to the nebulae hypothesis, the special corner of our universe was a lot of simple interstellar dust. This fundamental force -- gravity. May increase through the surrounding supernovae.
You might think we can live on the Earth without too much trouble? However, if humans are still around ten million years from now (which is by no means a certainty), then we may well become an interplanetary society. So everything that threatens life on Mars becomes a threat to us, too. At this stage, we naturally search for all possible dangers throughout the solar system, not just the Earth. Moreover, within the next 100 million years, Earth will be hit by an asteroid at least as powerful as the one that caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event (K-PG) 66 million years ago.
In the case of K-PG, three-quarters of the animals and plants were lost. Over the next 500 million years, our tiny planet is likely to experience several such cataclysmic events. At that point, the Earth could change beyond recognition, changing drastically in size, shape, topography and climate. And the Earth is about to undergo two other big transformations. One is that in about 180 million years, the length of Earth's day will change.
As the Earth slows down, the day will be 25 hours long. The second is that 250 to 500 million years from now, whether or not a huge impact has kicked up material on the surface of the Earth, another supercontinent will form on the surface of the Earth. This supercontinent will be called Ultimate Pangaea. The map of the world will look very different. In short, science thinks supercontinents go through cycles of merging and breaking up, much like the ancient continent Pangaea.
By some estimates, we could be as little as 250 million years away from the next merging continent. In the wider solar system, as we now know it, the prospects for life beyond Earth still seem slim. Over the next 500 million years, the picture will be even bleaker. Exactly when life in the solar system will end is a matter of great debate. However, because the sun is expanding and the light is increasing, even in more optimistic estimates, it won't be more than a billion years from now. As James Kasting, a planetary scientist at Pennsylvania State University, suggests, the end of life on Earth is likely to be earlier than thought.
Kasting warns that Earth's carbon dioxide "offset limit" is about to be breached, and that when the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen becomes unsustainable through photosynthesis, he predicts, it will lead to the extinction of 95% of the planet's plants. In other words, other living things -- as we currently understand them -- will also go extinct. Without plants to produce oxygen and provide food, animals would either starve to death or be poisoned by lack of breathable air.
The ozone layer could be decimated even more rapidly, causing extraterrestrial radiation to penetrate the atmosphere and invade the already barren surface of the Earth. Therefore, it is clear that if the human race has not escaped the Earth, or away from the sun, the human race will also be destroyed. The only organisms with a slim chance of surviving on Earth (or anywhere else in the solar system) would be single-celled organisms. Our expanding and burning sun will no longer be a suitable host star for organic cells.
Our expanding and burning sun is no longer fit to be a major star - unless civilization can domesticate it to some extent with a Dyson sphere (which is another story).
Imagine the solar system in 500 million years, and all we have to think about is what the sun will look like. We've always heard that the sun is going to explode into a White Dwarf in five billion years and become a red giant and then a black dwarf. But things are not set in stone. In five billion years' time, the sun will be 5% brighter than it is today. That may sound like a small percentage, but it's probably enough to change everything for land life.
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will continue to experience high temperatures, and planets with atmospheres will continue to experience increased radiation. This will lead to chaos. Then maybe Ceres, Vesta and Vesta in the asteroid belt will become habitable... But whether there will be anything left to go there is another matter! It is predicted that when the red giant phase finally arrives, Mercury, Venus, and Earth will eventually be swallowed by our sun. Such a fate will not come suddenly, the alarm bells will be ringing in 5 billion years from now!



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