Oh, no! We're all going to die!
About five billion years from now, astronomers say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-called red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and dooming life on Earth, but perhaps not Earth itself.
Oh, wait. We'll all be dead already. At least Earth will survive, which should please the environmentalists. I know The New York Times prides itself on telling us all we need to know, but, come on.
