With an estimated 4.57 billion years under its belt, the sun has reached middle age. With the use of information gathered by the Gaia spacecraft, the investigation was carried out.

The Sun, the celestial body that provides us with light, is going through a mid-life crisis, a moment that all individuals endure and one that obviously even the powerful star couldn't avoid

The sun is currently rife with solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar storms, according to ESA. With an estimated 4.57 billion years under its belt, it has reached middle age.

With the use of information gathered by the Gaia spacecraft, the investigation was carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA).

NASA had previously stated in their report, "The Sun will grow into a red giant star when it begins to die, getting so big that it would likely swallow up Earth along with Venus and Mercury.

The Sun, according to scientists, is about halfway through its life and has around 5 billion years left before it turns into a white dwarf.

Returning to the ESA study, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and solar storms will become less common as the Sun's 11-year solar cycle comes to an end.

The Sun will eventually run out of hydrogen as it ages, becoming into a massive red star with a lower surface temperature and cooling off.

The Sun will eventually reach the end of its life cycle and turn into a dim white dwarf star, according to the ESA.

Orlagh Creevey from the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in France examined some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way Galaxy with surface temperatures ranging from 

3000K to 10,000K in order to scan through the data. We needed a particularly pure sample of stars with really accurate readings, according to Orlagh.