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Sun has 5 billion years left: Nobel laureate
Sunday April 28, 2013 10:36:09 AM,
EFE
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Madrid: The
universe will continue expanding and the objects which it is
composed of will move apart faster, causing stars, such as the
Sun, to become fainter, although in the case of the Sun this will
not happen for "more than 5 billion years", Nobel laureate in
physics Brian Schmidt said.
The US-born astrophysicist, who lives in Australia, won the Nobel
Prize in Physics in 2011 along with Adam Riess and Saul Perlmutter
for discovering that the universe is accelerating.
Schmidt spoke with reporters about his research on the universe
before delivering an address, "The Accelerating Universe", at
Spain's Fundacion BBVA.
The greatest challenge for scientists today is figuring out the
"dark energy" of which nearly 70 percent of the universe is made,
Schmidt said.
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