If i were to wear sunglasses and was looking directly at the sun, which had exploded. Would i see the sun how it was 100's of years ago or i would see a flash and the destruction instantly ???
If the light takes 100's of years to get here then i think it would have the same effect. CORRECT ???
2006-08-07 11:36:28 · 30 answers · asked by David The Visionary 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
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2006-08-07 11:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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very thought provoking.
i know that the lights that shine from the stars is actually reflected light from hundreds of years ago. however i think that if the sun exploded then we would probably notice it a lot sooner than that. as the sun is the largest star in the universe we see light directly from it, it does not need to reflect from elsewhere.
i think that we may have light and heat from the sun for a short while after the explosion [should we actually survive, and we have not drifted off into space or towards the blackhole that would be left by the sun] when there is a solar explosion on the sun they monitor the weather for several days after in case it has some kind of effect, this must mean that whatever happens on or with the sun would have an effect on us with a short time and we probably would see the explosion.
2006-08-07 18:50:21 · answer #2 · answered by cross_sox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. The light from the sun takes a bit over 8 minutes to reach Earth. In order to see the explosion 100 years after the explosion you would have to be 100 light years away. You would need a telescope, not sunglasses. If you were near (or on) Earth you would see the explosion in 8 minutes.
2006-08-07 18:43:35 · answer #3 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light from our sun is not 100 years behind, it is only 8.5 minutes delayed, so at moment of flash, you would still see the normal sun, and then 8.5 minutes later, you would see the flash, and then you would start to feel the effects.
One theory about how the sun will die is that the sun will expand as the Fission Reaction breaks down, and it will engulf Mercury Venus, Earth and possibly Mars, and then the sun will collapse on itself and die. We would already have been cooked alive before the collapse, so would not see it anyway. That's just a theory.
2006-08-07 21:33:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't take hundreds of years for sunlight to reach the Earth, it takes 8 minutes, so when the Sun exploded you would'nt know anything about it for at least 8 minutes and then you'd see,
if you're talking about stars hundreds of light years away then yes, you're correct in a way, for a star that is a hundred light years away we receive the light from a hundred years ago because thats how long it takes the light to reach us, so if a star a hundred light years away exploded then we wouldn't see anything different for a hundred years, and aliens looking at us from that star would see us a hundred years ago in 1906
2006-08-08 06:01:01 · answer #5 · answered by revolutionman1379 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it only takes light from the sun about 8 minutes to reach earth. essentially, when you look at the sun, you are seeing what it looked like 8 minutes ago. if the sun exploded a precisely 12:00, we would not see it explode until 12:08
2006-08-07 18:42:10 · answer #6 · answered by aleman1204 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light only takes 8 minutes from the sun
2006-08-07 18:40:54 · answer #7 · answered by stweedle_uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light travels to earth from the sun in 8 minutes... And if the sun did explode and you were looking at it, when you saw the explosion, it would have happened 6 minutes ago. Send me a message if you want to discuss it more.
2006-08-07 18:40:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light from the OUR sun takes about 4 minutes to get to us. You would see the nova about 4 minutes after it actually occured in reality. You wouldn't see anything instantly - just because there is energy exploding doesn't mean it is exceeding the speed of light.
2006-08-07 18:40:44 · answer #9 · answered by TwilightWalker97 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you wont even hear the explosion. becouse if the sun explodes and a slight change in it, even a milisecond of movement, the earth will stay silent becouse of a slight climate change. imagine your in florida and its 90 degreese out side and your just minding your own buisiness, and all of a sodden the temperature drops 50 degreese. your heart will stop and you will fall to the ground. so what I'm saying is once the sun explodes. that instance the human life and all life on earth will end, and then its just a waiting game untill its the sun pieces reaches the earth.
2006-08-07 18:47:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light from our Sun takes just a few minutes (8 I think) , so you would see and feel the event just a few minutes after it happened... If it did happen the Earth would be destroyed
2006-08-07 18:42:06 · answer #11 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋