Is This is How Our World Will END – Hubble Telescope Gives Amazing Glimpse into the Future

Ever wondered about how life as we know it will end?

This image from NASA and the ESA’s Hubble telescope, taken in 2009, gives us a glimpse into the future.

The picture shows a star known as Kohoutek 4-55 in the process of dying.

It offers us a rare preview as to what will happen to our sun when it comes to the end of its life.

Although it looks pretty, the star, located 4,600 light years away near to the constellation Cygnus, is expanding and burning everything that is close to it – meaning the Earth will also fry.

However, we still have some time before this happens – around five billion years, and by that time we will have hopefully found a planet in a far away galaxy to reside in.

The ESA said: “The intricate swirls of gas offer us a glimpse of our sun’s distant future.

“In five billion years’ time, our star will be dying.

“It is expected to behave in the same way as see here, shedding its outer layers to reveal the burning core, which then becomes a slowly cooling ember known as a white dwarf.

The sun will die in 5 billion years

“By that time, Earth will be long gone, burnt to a crisp as the sun dies.

“But the beauty of our star’s passing will shine across the Universe.”

However, that’s if the universe even makes it that far.

In February, experts predicted that the universe will be torn apart in 2.8 billion years, and with 14 billion years since the Big Bang, it means that it has now entered its old age.

Previously it had been thought the universe will not tear itself apart for 22 billion years, but this time has been reduced almost tenfold.

Experts also believed the universe is expanding and its expansion accelerates as time goes by.

Scientists now acknowledge this quickening expansion is down to the presence of dark energy, which still remains a mystery.

As the universe expands, more dark energy is created, causing the process to get faster.

Eventually, the pace of the acceleration will become so much that that the fabric of spacetime will tear apart, causing everything as we know it to end.

By analysing data surrounding galaxies, supernovae, and ripples in baryon acoustic oscillations – a form of matter – which are all used to measure the presence of dark energy, a team, led by Diego Sáez-Gómez at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, found that the earliest a big rip in the universe can occur is 1.2 times that of the age of the universe – or 2.8 billion years.