All Stories. Bobby Womack, the legendary soul singer whose career spanned seven decades, died Friday at age 70. A representative for Womack's label XL Recordings confirmed the singer's death to Rolling Stone, but said the cause of death was currently unknown.
The Sun Will Destroy Earth Sooner Than You Might Think. Everything must end. There are plenty of ways Earth could go. It could smash into another planet, be swallowed by a black hole, or get pummelled to death by asteroids. Thereâs really no way to tell which doomsday scenario will be the cause of our planetâs demise. But one thing is for sure - even if Earth spends the rest of its eons escaping alien attacks, dodging space rocks, and avoiding a nuclear apocalypse, there will come a day when our own Sun will eventually destroy us.
Thatâs about as hot as the surface of the sun, but vastly cooler than the sunâs interior. By the way, while the heat energy produced inside Earth is enormous, itâs some 5,000 times less powerful than what Earth receives from the sun.The sunâs heat drives the weather and ultimately causes erosion. So itâs ironic that â while Earthâs heat makes mountains â the sunâs energy tears them down again, bit by bit.ut itâs producing almost as much heat as itâs losing. The process by which Earth makes heat is called radioactive decay. It involves the disintegration of natural radioactive elements inside Earth â like uranium, for example. Uranium is a special kind of element because when it decays, heat is produced.