The Final Age of the Solar System

Earth is a success story, a thriving world that has hosted life for almost 4 billion years. But, no matter how peaceful things may be now, a new age is coming for the Solar System. An age of change, destruction and evolution. A place for new worlds and new stories, but one in which the Earth has no place. You can now support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sea_media Patrons get ad-free access to my videos, and also get early access sneak peaks! Alternatively, you can become a channel member through YouTube: https://youtube.com/seaMedia/join All support is hugely appreciated and helps me in my full-time job of creating these videos! Do you use these videos to sleep or for night time watching? Check out the new sleeping space playlist, a collection of my most chilled out and ambient videos. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoaIad9k4NIlsG6g-almaZH6MzR_T5eV Join the official #SeaSquad Discord Server: https://discord.gg/GhbzV4kKee Business Enquiries: [email protected] This is the part 2 to my last video, going from the birth of the Solar System to its death! Watch them together for the full hour-long experience here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoaIad9k4NIIZKHVQyLH-kpb4OpWK7x5 Thanks to Wimptastic as always for the excellent thumbnail! https://twitter.com/Wimptastical Credits, Attributions, Sources and Other Stuff ===== MUSIC: The Sound Effects used in the introduction to this video were obtained from the Envato Market (Audio Jungle), under a Single Use License. Source: https://audiojungle.net/item/glitch-big-pack-2/22766973 - Dreamscape - Density & Time - The Unknown - CO.AG Music - https://youtu.be/IFYTGVE1aRs - Sunrise on Mars - Audionautix - As Prevent You Do - pATCHES - At the Foot of the Sphinx - Twin Musicom - It Maintains, Eyes Change - Puddle of Infinity - Growing Space - Astron - The Blue Pearl - Jesse Gallagher - Kallimachou - Dan Bodan Sunrise on Mars by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/ All songs besides that of CO.AG's were obtained from the YouTube Audio Library. FOOTAGE & IMAGES: The space scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator: http://spaceengine.org/ Get SpaceEngine on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/314650/SpaceEngine/ Some scenes created using Universe Sandbox: http://universesandbox.com/ Stock footage provided by Videezy.com - Andromeda & Milky Way Collision: https://kottke.org/19/10/behold-our-dazzling-night-sky-when-the-milky-way-collides-with-andromeda-in-4-billion-years - Titan Image Gallery: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/target/titan?start=0 - Titan Landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L471ct7YDo - Solar System orbits simulation SOURCES OF INFORMATION: - Solar System Facts: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/in-depth/ - The Distant Future of the Sun: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.4031.pdf - Milky Way & Andromeda Collision: https://www.universetoday.com/1604/when-our-galaxy-smashes-into-andromeda-what-happens-to-the-sun/ - Titan Under a Red Giant Sun: https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/redgiant.pdf - [Omitted Section] Pluto & Triton in the Final Age: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/heres-what-happens-to-the-solar-system-when-the-sun-dies - Horizontal & Asymptotic Giant Branch: http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~thompson/1101/lecture_evolution_low_mass_stars.html - White Dwarfs: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/319535 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Introduction 1:28 The Next Billion Years 6:10 Milkdromeda Collision 8:03 The Red Giant Branch 13:12 Habitable Moons 16:27 Titan 21:00 Titan's Prospects for Life 23:24 Horizontal and Asymptotic Giant Branch 26:52 The White Dwarf Sun 29:19 The Solar System's Last Day