Re: Question on BigBang vs Age of the solar system
- From: Sam Wormley <swormley1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:25:28 GMT
jdbertron wrote:
According to Wikipedia the age of the universe is about 13.7 Billion
years.
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CMB_Timeline300.jpg)
According to Wikipedia again, the age of the sun is about 4.5 billion
years. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_Life.png).
Sccording to the same picture, a typical small size start like the sun
would live to about 14 billion years before it collapses into a white
dwarf.
Main sequence lifetimes
http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/astronomy/fix/student/chapter19/19f09.html
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