Questions tagged [future]
Questions relating to things that may occur in the future.
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Temperature on the outer Solar System planets
How much time would it take for temperature on the outer Solar System planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) to rise, so their moons can eventually support life?
I heard that it would take 7.5 ...
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What are the estimated dates for destruction of planets by the Sun in the distant future?
The Sun will eventually be larger than today billions of years from now. What are the precise estimated dates for every planet to be destroyed by the Sun?
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How precise are future Solar eclipse timing, path and dates, what could change timing/path?
News says that next Solar eclipse in USA will be in 2044 and 2045 .
For 2045 eclipse eclipse begin time is calculated up to the seconds. Duration for USA is mentioned as 1h, 26m, 35s also.
I am not ...
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Where will all atoms on the Earth end up when the Sun engulfs the earth?
I am curious about what will happen to all atoms on the Earth including all of our atoms after the Sun engulfs the Earth?
Will they become the part of the Sun's white dwarf?
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Will Lunar Months be the same length Millions of Years in the Future?
If I remember correctly, the amount of time it takes for the moon to rotate around Earth is getting longer over time. Is this true, and if so or the opposite is true and a lunar month is getting ...
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How are the Extremely Large and Thirty Meter Telescopes coming along ("planned 2027")
The graphic above is oft-cited in SE questions and answers. I was (a little) sad to see in it that the 100 meter telescope-engineering wunderkind Overwhelmingly Large Telescope or "OWL" has ...
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"Next Generation Arecibo Telescope (NGAT)... would combine a 314-metre-wide platform with a swarm of 9-metre dishes on top" What would that look like?
In Nature News' August 11, 2023 Closing down an icon: will Arecibo Observatory ever do science again? found in The Observatory there is discussion of the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope (NGAT):
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Will the Sun fall into a black hole? If so, when and which one?
According to the Wikipedia page "Timeline of the far future", stellar remnants not ejected from their galaxies will fall into the central supermassive black holes over a time scale of around ...
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What are some notable bets Astronomers place on Astronomy, e.g. Mike Merrifield's on Mars; is there a list of them?
Is it theoretically possible to see a spiral galaxy head on, and side on, if there is a convenient gravitational lensing effect? turned me on to astronomer Mike Merrifield's excellent Sixty Symbols ...
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What will happen to the Galilean moons after the Sun dies(assuming no human effects)
Will the system go completely unstable due to all the mass loss the moons and jupiter experienced,will it already have gone unstable before this,or will they keep the resonance,if they keep it,will ...
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What is the evolutionary leap in the great filter? [closed]
This might be very unclear, but in pictures explaining the great filter, there is an evolutionary leap that the civilisation is most likely not to be able to pass through. But what is that leap? Is it ...
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How bright will Alpha Centauri A be from Earth when it becomes a red giant?
As of right now, both stars from Alpha Centauri are in their main sequence stages, but eventually Alpha Centauri A is going to quickly expand in a matter of time, and I’m pretty sure its luminosity is ...
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Is it possible for the Milky Way and Andromeda to get ejected upon colliding instead of merging?
The Milky Way and Andromeda are destined to collide and merge within the next 4-5 billion years, but I feel like there could be a chance that instead of merging, they could just eject each other. I ...
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Will the stars dim in the future because of the expansion of the universe?
We know that the universe is expanding, and that means everything is spreading apart. So does that mean in the future all the stars will dim and eventually disappear in our night sky because of the ...
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"Holy grail" future observation to confirm presence of neutron stars in the centers of massive, otherwise conventional stars? (Thorne–Żytkow objects)
Wikipedia's Thorne–Żytkow object begins:
A Thorne–Żytkow object (TŻO or TZO), also known as a hybrid star, is a conjectured type of star wherein a red giant or red supergiant contains a neutron star ...
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The orbital period of Jupiter and Europa billions of years later
We know that the Sun gets so big billions of years later and the Earth will get destroyed.
What will the orbital period of Jupiter (Sun-Jupiter system) and its moon Europa (Jupiter-Europa system) be ...
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Winter in June in the future for North hemisphere
Kleppner and Kolenkow, An introduction to mechanics
The period of the precession is 26000 years. 13000 years from now,
the polar axis will not point toward Polaris, the current north star; it
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How long before Phobos reaches the Roche limit of Mars?
Phobos orbits really close to Mars, so close that one Phobos period is shorter than one sol. Due to tidal friction, it is also getting closer and closer to Mars. How much time will it take before ...
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Will the conditions that allow life to evolve still be around in a trillion years?
Some billions of years ago, systems like the Earth couldn't emerge and therefore life couldn't arise, because not enough of the heavy elements had formed yet.
Assuming there'll neither be a big ...
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What are the present, and potentially the future roles of data scientists in Astronomy? [closed]
I am a data scientist and curious about their roles in modern Astronomy, both now, and in the near future. What are type of roles and projects where data scientist are most active in Astronomy? What ...
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What would stargazing be like at the edge of our galaxy?
Let's say, for the sake of speculation, we acquire the technology necessary to travel to the outer edge of one of the spiral arms of our galaxy. We go to a star in this "outer rim" and land on a ...
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What is the limiting abundances of elements at the end of the stelliferous era?
Is there any reputable published source on expected elemental abundances at the end of the era of stellar fusion? I am here interested in the contents of galaxies; much of intergalactic gas will be ...
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What will the universe be like in a googolplex years time?
It will be cold and dark in 10^(10^100) years.
What else can be said of the state of things in the far distant future? Will everything have fallen into supermassive black holes and then radiated ...
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What will be the impacts on the planets' orbits from Gliese 710?
In 1.5 million years, the star Gliese 710 is expected to pass through the Oort cloud. Now obviously this will shower the inner solar system with comets, but the Wikipedia page doesn't say anything ...
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If an asteroid was to collide with Earth, how much warning would we have?
I was talking to my 9-year-old son about the Florence asteroid that is passing close to the earth. He wanted to view youtube videos about that asteroids, and we saw the starting of this one https://...
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How can we use hypervelocity stars to determine the origins of the Universe?
I was reading this article finding evidence of Universe's origin, which describes that in 1 trillion years we may lose the ability to determine how the universe was created.
The answer seems to be ...
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In 31.5kyr, Epsilon Eridani and Luyten 726-8 will be < 1ly close; but how distant from the Solar system?
Based on Wikipedia and more precisely this paper, it is said that, in about 31,500 years, the stars Epsilon Eridani and Luyten 726-8AB will "meet" at a very close distance (less than 1 light ...
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3000th Question: What does the future of astronomy look like with the next generation of telescopes? [closed]
What will the benefits and advantages be of the upcoming generation of telescopes such as LSST, E-ELT and JWST? And more broadly where will this leave astronomy in 10-20 years time?
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Is the Earth going to evolve towards Mars' fate or Venus' fate?
Upon reading on this site (and many others), one can think that Mars might have supported life in a distant past (discovery of liquid water, valleys, mountains...).
On the other hand, Venus is the ...
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