What would happen to our solar system if the sun exploded?
So if the sun exploded, how would our solar system be affected?
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The SOLAR (think sun) system wouldn’t exist. And we’d all be burned alive very very quickly.
The sun is the CENTER of our solar system, so if the sun exploded of COURSE the solar system would be affected.
The solar system would be destroyed.
Since the sun can’t explode its all conjecture, but if it did explode then its likely all the terrestrial planets (by that I mean Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) would be destroyed.
Jupiter and the other gas giants (meaning Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) might survive, or they might be ejected from the solar system.
If there was nothing left of the sun after the explosion, then there would be nothing left to hold the remaining planets in orbit and they would each just go off into space (think of swinging a rock around your head on a string, and what happens if the string breaks – same thing with the planets if the sun vanished).
As such, our sun cannot explode. It doesn’t have enough mass to go supernova, and it needs a companion star to go nova. It will eventually become a red giant, then a white dwarf. In the red giant phase, everything inside the orbit of Mars will be vaporized. The outer planets will be greatly reduced in size.
Funny thing. Even if the sun did explode,you coulnd’t hear it!
We will be burnt alive or if the Sun were to burn out at this moment we would freeze to death with our entire planet.
Our Sun is a medium sized star which is approx. 4.5 billion years old and is expected to live another 4 billion years. It has been theorized that If the Sun blew up the first thing the inhabitants would experience is the impact of all the radiative particles–x-ray, cosmic, alpha and beta particles, neutrinos and gamma rays bombarding us. Another theory is that Earth would drift through space and would probably end up circling Jupiter, and all the water will have boiled away.
Still another theory holds there would still be oceans of water, but they would no doubt be frozen. An Ice Age would come upon Earth, Mars and all of the 166 moons in our solar system would be orbiting in the cold and darkness of space.
Read Robert Jastrow’s book, “Red Giants and White Dwarfs” to learn about the fate of our Sun. Hopefully, we will have discovered other solar systems on the other side of our galactic disk. Or, if our Milky Way Galaxy cannabilizes or merges with the Andromeda, other planets/moons may become accessible to us.
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What do you bloody think?