Hi ringo,
ringo writes:
Maybe you shouldn't get your science info from cartoons.
I don't think Scientific America, Smithsonian.com, or Penn State Science, would take kindly to you calling them a cartoon.
In Scientific America September issue 2008 they had an article by David Appeil titled, The Sun will Eventually Engulf Earth...Maybe. It was previously published as, "A Solar Big Gulp".
In the article it talks about the sun expanding as well as getting brighter.
The Smithsonian published an article August 21, 2012.
Title: Earth Will Die a Hot Horrible Death when the Sun Expands and Swallows Us, and Now We Know What That Looks Like.
It seems some Astronomers "BD+48 740 signs that it had recently enveloped and consumed one of its planets. Which is what the Sun will do to earth.
The original story can be found...http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2012-news/Wolszczan8-2012.
God Bless,
"John 5:39 (KJS) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me."