From: vitalmis@optusnet.com.au   
      
   George wrote:   
      
   > When our dear sun will die it will flare up in red gint frying till   
   > earth maybe mars, after that it will  end up in white dwarf, is this   
   > mean that gravity of sun will also die off, then what will happen to   
   > outer planets like saturn jupiter ect, will they wander in to deep   
   > space if not end up colliding with other and eventually become planets   
   > of some other sun   
      
   The sun will blow off a certain amount of its outer layers, but most of the   
   mass will remain. The outer planets will remain in orbit, just slightly   
   larger orbits than at present. That's if we haven't converted them to Dyson   
   spheres in the meantime.   
      
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