What would happen if the sun exploded?

Question

I need to put this to the vote too, just so I'm being unbiased.

Answer 1

Our sun will not explode. It will eventually burn out in about est. 5 billion years. Then, for the next several million years it will swell to a red giant which will possibly engulf the Earth and quite possibly Mars. Then eventually the remainder will be pushed off into space and it will shrink to a white dwarf.

Answer 2

The Sun WILL explode. This is when the sun dies. The Sun will not die for a long time yet, and will only do so when there is no more hydrogen left in its core to do nuclear fusion on. After this the Sun will expand slightly before the core gets hot enough to start fusing larger elements such as helium when it will begin to shrink again. Then it will suddenly explode. The outer layers of the sun will 'bounce' off the very dense core and be sent into space. Mercury and Venus would be engulfed very quickly and soon the outer layers of the Sun would have reached Earth's orbit. The remaining core would become a white dwarf star, while the outer layers carry on going beyond the solar system. The white dwarf will, over billion of years, fade to become a black dwarf and will just be a small ball of dust and gas.

Answer 3

In reality the sun will continue to grow in size and reduce in mass, as it has done since its inception, eventually engulfing the solar system and disintergrating into a floating asteroid field. so your hypothetical is impossible, but if the sun exploded today, it would send a shock wave that would obliterate the solar system and send its pieces moving through space at incredible speed, followed by an implosion and slow death of the sun, converting it into a enourmous meteor of granite and trapped pockets of hydrogen gas: the ultimate doomsday weapon for interstellar warfare.

Answer 4

There would be a loud bang, but you wouldn't hear it because:

(1) the fragments would be moving faster than the speed of sound
(2) It would happen in a vacuum
(3) all live on earth would be extinguished within 10 minutes.

Answer 5

The earth would continue to move at a right angle to the sun continuing in a straight line at a constant speed through space until it hit something

Answer 6

If the sun explodes we will be bombarded by extreme radiation , then everything would go dark , the planet will die .
The planets of the solar system rotate around the sun because of its imense gravity. this would cease to happen .
Basically it would mean the end of life as we know it.

Answer 7

We would stop to exisit because we need the sun for the heat and if we had no heat we would have the ice age all over again. OR if the explosion was so big we would burn up in a big fire ball. Either way i do not want to die that wya so i hope it never happens lol.

Answer 8

One day the sun will explode and it will have an effect on the solar system. The earth will boil, but not for more than a billion years

Answer 9

Human kind and everything on earth would cease to exist. Our part of the universe will dissappear into a black hole. Other universes in the unending space will continue as before.

Answer 10

When the sun finally dies in a few billion years time, it will first expand and swallow Mercury, (the other closest palnet I can't remember the name of) and the Earth.