Can the sun burn the earth someday?
99768
Sort of!  As the sun slowly runs out of (mostly hydrogen) fuel, it will expand into a red giant and it's radius will be greater than the current position of the Earth.  However, the Earth's orbit is currently projected to move farther out while this happens so our planet will not actually be engulfed by the sun.  It will, however, experience a very large temperature increase.
299010
Global warming and even nuclear bombs will not destroy the earth they will merely wipe us out along with all the other life on earth.\nIf you are talking about the planet then you will have to wait for either a random meteor to blast the planet to peices or prehaps a super nove in our region of space.\n\nIf neither of them occurs then we will have to wait 5 billion years for our star the sun to enter its next phase of life and become a red dwarf star at which point it is predicted it will probably grow to a size that will encompass and destroy the earth.
717266
tomorrow the sun will rise
415983
It will happen someday. I dissagree casually with the people who said it will never happen. I believe once we have a cheaper energy source, and faster travel, we will do it. \n\nWe have the technology today, but it's the cost, the danger, and the time that prevents us. \n\nIt will happen someday, I have no idea when, but it will. I wouldn't hold your breath though.
260515
Apparently, lesser sunlight will get in. That will cause some imbalance on earth.
1064119
If the sun were any farther from the earth we would all freeze to death. If it were any closer, we would all burn to death.
185980
Our sun will not supernova.  It will, over a very long time, expand into a relatively small red giant, which will have a diameter greater than the Earth's orbit.\n\nLong before that the Earth will have become far too hot to live on, but the process will be very, very slow -- it'll take over a billion years -- not a giant explosion.\n\nSorry to disappoint you.  I know, you sound like you were looking forward to it.  Funny how many people answering this question think otherwise.  I guess that's the irony of the internet for you.\n\nSee the link below for all the details:
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The worst thing that'll hurt the Earth is getting melted by the Sun when it grows from a small yellow star into a red giant star in about seven billion years, as estimated by astrophysical calculations.\n\nThe Sun will  transform all the hydrogen it has into helium by fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium nuclei. The helium will accumulate in the Sun's nucleus, and the Sun's volume will increase. Its temperature will also increase. As a consequence, In about three billion years, water in the Earth's oceans will evaporate. In about seven billion years, the Sun will ultimately swallow Mercury, and its temperature will be so high that the Earth's rocks will melt.\n\nAfter that, the Sun will have burned all the helium in it and shrink into a white dwarf star, so the Solar System, including the Earth, will freeze.\n\nThat will mark the end of the Earth, and so it will be the thing that will hurt it most.
463963
I would say false.  The gravitational pull of the sun would pull it to it's doom.
748786
Well the sun is forever burning,I don't think it would cool down at any point in time.\nI think thats how it is I'm not really sure,ether way they'll burn to a crisp.\nFried monkey!Thats a new one.lol
889751
Possible, yes.  Likely, no.  We know the orbits of the satellites we put up pretty well.\n\nHowever, there IS a lot of junk orbiting the Earth - pieces of spacecraft, nuts, bolts, etc - and they are orbiting fast.  Being hit by a fast-moving piece of space trash is something they have to keep in mind and try to account for when building shuttles.
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the bible says no man will no wen or how the end of the earth will come so dont even waste ur time guessin we no it wont be by flood he has done that once and said he wouldnt destroy the earth the same way twice\nso i think fire will be ti\nbut its probly not the answer
1089406
That's becuase it will enhance the effects of the sun. You will burn faster.
464689
Possibly.\nEither by the sun dying out, thats billions of years away. Or the glaciers melting, thats possible in a million or two, given our pollution. \nA meteor hit can do it, like dinosaur wipe-out. Probability is one in a billion, but hey we have been around for that long or more.
1139871
Strictly speaking, the sun does not burn. At least, not the way that, say, a wick on a candle does. The small fires we're all familiar with are created by a chemical reaction betweena fuel, such as oil or coal, and oxygen. The sun's writhing surface, on the other hand, is the result of a nuclear reaction that fuses hydrogen to form helium.
13828
The sun will expand and engolf the Earth before it explodes.  This means we will never watch the explosion, we would burn up first, but it is not going to happen in our lifetime.
973630
It will - every sun eventually burns out it is simply a huge star.  It will burn out in like a billion years or something lol.