hmmm... i think its not true...well its just a prediction... as far as i know it will take millions of years or even billions of years... for the world to end...and its cause is the sun's explosion... so until then ill enjoy my life... and i heard that scientist are investigating about a planet where people can live... [b]not mars[/b] the only problem is that they dont know how go there, because probably i takes a long time.. well scientist's are working on it... [quote]About five billion years from now, astronomers say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-called red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and dooming life on Earth, but perhaps not Earth itself. Astronomers are announcing that they have discovered a planet that seems to have survived the puffing up of its home star, suggesting there is some hope that Earth could survive the aging and swelling of the Sun. The newly discovered planet is a gas giant at least three times as massive as Jupiter. It orbits about 150 million miles from a faint star in the constellation Pegasus known as V 391 Pegasi. But before that star blew up as a red giant sometime in the past and lost half its mass, the planet must have been about as far from its star as the Earth is to the Sun — about 90 million miles — the astronomers led by Roberto Silvotti of the Observatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, calculated.[/quote]

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