If the universe is expanding forever, than does that mean the sun will slowley get farther away from earth?

Question

and we would all freeze?

Answer 1

nope, because we are orbiting around the sun. it's gravity keeps us near it. other galaxies will get farther away.

but we can freeze because the sun is made of burning hydrogen (like 6 billion H-Bombs per second) and it will eventually run out of hydrogen and start to "die" when it dies it it will become a red giant, it will have a pretty big explosion of heat which could fry us. Scientists say the sun is already in it's 2nd phase, during it's first phase Earth was too cold to live on and Venus might have been a nice temperature, but the transition to the 2nd phase fried Venus, now Venus's average temp is something like 700 degrees and it's atmosphere is made of sulphur, which is what you get when rock gets too hot. the transition to the 3rd phase could fry Earth, if it doesn't then the sun will be a Red Giant, much larger than it is now. but red giants are colder so we might be ok (since we will be closer to it, so maybe we can still live here, if not we will have to move to mars before the transition. which might make mars warmer anyway) but after the 3rd transition it will have another big explosion and become a white dwarf, someone correct me if i'm wrong but i believe a white dwarf might be too cold for us to survive. but hopefully by then we will be on some sustainable energy and be able to grow our own food and stuff and not need the sun. of course though, none of this is going to happen for millions of years.

Answer 2

No. The Sun and the Earth are gravitationally bound and will not drift away from each other due to the Universe's expansion (although the Earth's orbit is theoretically slightly larger than it otherwise would be). They will, however, eventually either decay into photons and leptons or be sucked into a black hole that will eventually explode, and the matter and energy contained in them will then be dispersed throughout the Universe and drift apart as the Universe expands. This energy will no longer be recognizable as the Sun and the Earth at this point though.

Answer 3

it means that the earth and sun would get farther apart from each other, yes. but not by any means at a rapid pace. by the time they do get significantly far, the earth wont even exist anymore. the sun will be in its last stage of its 'life' and by then, the sun will expand as big as  earth's orbit, then collapse in on itself into a white dwarf. the earth will be sucked into the sun as it expands,  along with mercury and venus. humans will be long gone by this time (a few million years), and if we plan on existing, we'd better find a way to figure out the speed of light, and travel to a planet in an alien galaxy with earth-like conditions lol

so no, we wont freeze lol

Answer 4

No.  things that are gravitationally linked, like the earth and the sun will not drift apart.   And in the case of the sun and the earth, quite the opposite.  The sun will steadily brighten.  Then in about 4.5 billion years it will swallow the earth.  

Answer 5

No and no. The universe is expanding not our star system or the galaxy it resides in. We are still bound by the laws of gravitational attraction and are therefore bound to our sun and our star system to the galaxy, and while the sun is losing mass due to its conversion of hydrogen into helium and so on, its not enough to cause our planet to drift far enough away to cause us to freeze, in fact our sun will begin to swell many, many millions of years in the future and cause the earth to fry. The universe is indeed expanding, but not from the inside out but more like the outside in. As the outside of the universe recedes it draws the bounries of the universe with it.

Answer 6

No. Only the intergalactic space between Galaxies are expanding.

Our Galaxy is closly tied together by Gravity.

Just like a train going away from Station,the distance between the station and train increases,but the individual compartments are  tied together.

Answer 7

It is estimated that in next approximately 5 billion years our sun would have consumed all the hydrogen in it and would become a red-giant. While becoming a red-giant, our sun is expected grow in size to increase its diameter immensely which is expected to reach or engulf our earth. By then most of earth's contents such as water would have evaporated and surface may even melt. Life on earth would have vanished long time before we here. Sun the red-giant may even eat up earth before it starts to shrink to end up as a dwarf star. It may stay a dwarf for a long time.

It must also be noted that our galaxy Milky Way is on a collision course with other neighboring galaxy (I am not sure if the colliding one  is Andromeda but Andromeda is our neighbor of equal in size).

Answer 8

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Answer 9

No, over short distances, other forces can easily overcome the expansion of space. The Sun holding the Earth, the Earth holding the moon, the atoms of your body are all safe. However the distance between galaxies is expanding, as there is a lot more space between them than the Sun, Earth, moon or your atoms.