will the sun ever die – Extreme Force

Question: will the sun ever die
- Keywords:
  end of the world,
  sun
Asked by Hollie Mae to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Millie Hollidge ;).
- Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:
  
  @Hollie Mae Yes! In about 5 billion years it will expand to a red giant and then after a final hurrah ejecting lots of gas into a planetary nebula, it will contract to become a small cold white dwarf which will cool until it has no energy to emit and then become a black dwarf – a dead star.
- Jillian Scudder answered on 17 Jun 2015:
  
  All stars die, and the mass of the star determines how quickly it does – the biggest stars only last a few million years – our star will last about 8 billion from birth to death – we’re about halfway through it’s lifetime.
- Steven Thomson answered on 23 Jun 2015:
  
  As the others have said, eventually it will. Hopefully, though, by that time humans will have left Earth and be living on other planets around other stars, so it won’t matter if the Sun goes out!

Question: will the sun ever die