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  • All About Space

    Timeline of our planet’s fate

    May 21, 2020 3 minutes

    Present day

    An oasis for life

    Earth is the most fertile spot in the known universe, with a protective atmosphere and liquid water in abundance.

    Around 300,000 years

    Wolf-Rayet star WR 104 would have exploded, killing life on Earth

    Part of a binary star system 7,800 light years from Earth, WR 104 and its companion are expected to turn supernova within the next few hundred thousand years. Depending on WR 104’s axis of rotation, any resulting gamma ray burst could be aimed at Earth.

    500,000 years

    Earth will be hit by an asteroid one kilometre (0.62 miles) wide

    Earth is

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