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The Sun is stirring from its latest slumber. As sunspots and flares, signs of a new solar cycle, bubble from the Sun's surface, scientists wonder what this next cycle will look like. The short answer is, probably a lot like the last that is, the past 11 years of the Sun's life, since that's the average length of any given cycle.

We all wish that we could sometimes see into the future. Now, thanks to the very latest data from ESA's star mapping Gaia mission, astronomers can do just that for the Sun. By accurately identifying stars of similar mass and composition, they can see how our Sun is going to evolve in the future. And this work extends far beyond a little astrophysical clairvoyance.

A star like our Sun swelling into a red giant and engulfing its orbiting planets. Credit Stocktrek ImagesTomasz Dabrowski Getty Images It will eventually swell to swallow Mercury and Venus, and it may engulf Earth as well making this perhaps our most accurate response to the question as to how the world will end.

AN10 circles the Sun every 643 days and twice each year passes through the Earth's local neighbourhood. On 7th August 2027, it makes a particularly close approach as it comes within just 0.0026 AU 390,000 km 240,000 mi, about the same as the distance between the Earth and Moon.

Even though the sun's current solar cycle hasn't reached its peak yet, scientists have seen signs that the next 11-year solar cycle is already getting ready for its time to shine.

The purpose of the predictions is to provide future statistical estimates of sunspot number, solar radio 10.7 cm flux F10.7, and the geomagnetic planetary

The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA, announced that solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the start of a new solar cycle. Because our Sun is so variable, it can take months after the fact to declare this event.

Read 48 predictions for 2027, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It's your future, discover what you're in for.

How will our Sun look after it dies? Scientists have made predictions about what the final days of our Solar System will look like, and when it will happen.

Scientists collect studies and predict how the solar system and the earth will look like after the sun's demise. Know more about this study here, read now!