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By 3.5 billion years from now, Earth's surface conditions will be similar to those of Venus today. [117] Relative size of the Sun as it is now (inset) compared to its estimated future size as a red giant. Around 5.4 billion years from now, the core of the Sun will become hot enough to trigger hydrogen fusion in its surrounding shell. [118]
Studies since the mid-1990s have shown that the belt is dynamically stable and that comets' true place of origin is the scattered disc, a dynamically active zone created by the outward motion of Neptune 4.5 billion years ago; [18] scattered disc objects such as Eris have extremely eccentric orbits that take them as far as 100 AU from the Sun. [a]
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The planets are, in order of distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There are three main belts of minor bodies: The asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. The Kuiper belt beyond Neptune, followed by the scattered disc. The Oort cloud in the boundaries of the Solar System.
English: Detail of Jupiter's atmosphere, as imaged by Voyager 1. Suggested for English Wikipedia:alternative text for images: This view of Jupiter's clouds with the Great Red Spot at top right as brown oval to right of wavy white and brown clouds. Below the Great Red Spot are various bands of bluer wavy clouds at smaller scales with smaller ...
As night falls, Jupiter will rise in the east-northeast, among the stars that make up the constellation of Taurus, according to NASA. Around Dec. 14, Jupiter will be visible in the night sky ...
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4.5 billion Mars reaches the same solar flux as that of the Earth when it first formed 4.5 billion years ago from today. [92] < 5 billion The Andromeda Galaxy will have fully merged with the Milky Way, forming an elliptical galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda". [95] There is also a small chance of the Solar System being ejected.