This is How the Universe Ends

A new viral video takes on the big questions about the (very) distant future

Ahmed Kabil
Long Now
Published in
8 min readApr 17, 2019

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A still from Melodysheep’s Timelapse of the Future.

This much is certain: The sun, like all stars, will one day die. Its demise will begin five billion years from now, when it starts running out of fuel. It will slowly bloat into a red giant, becoming over two hundred times larger than it is today and thousands of times more luminous. As…

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