What would happen if the Sun were to be doused by trillions of trillions of gallons of water?

Answer 1

The sun is almost 1000000 times bigger than the earth in volume. So if you add that much gallons of water into the sun, the nuclear bond of water which is H2O would separate and you would add more fuel to the sun as hydrogen, which would fuse and generate heat and change thereafter into Helium. The big question however, is what would happen to the Oxygen which have been added into the sun? Oxygen has 16 electrons orbiting the nucleus, which I think it will become free and leave the nucleus with only protons and neutrons in it due to the high temperature of the sun. This is very interesting situation regarding what would really happen to the oxygen left inside the sun. I don't claim to really know what would become of the oxygen nucleus due to the tremendous heat the nucleus is exposed to, but I am going to find out later. You have a question that need to be searched for answer.

Answer 2

Well, the sun is so hot, the water would probably be evaporated by the time we get there. Then again, where will you get trillions and trillions of gallons of water? The Earth cannot supply all that. The Earth has only a few billion gallons-even though that is enough to flood the Earth, it is no chance for the Sun. But to answer your question, the water would probably wear off the Sun's heat, like a fire in the woods. There would be smoke everywhere, and soon, the sun would probably die. That is my opinion.

Answer 3

The sun is too hot to get the water there.

Assuming the water wouldn't freeze in space, or actually make it to the sun, the sun's temperature would evaporate the water into a moisture that wouldn't even begin to get close enough to the sun.

Assuming the water DOESN'T evaporate and is able to make it to the sun, there are so many layers on the sun, the water wouldn't do anything. The hotter core would be exposed, and maybe cause the planets to become warmer, but other than that, nothing really.

Answer 4

well lets see, the mass of an ice-comet containing trillions of trillions of gallons of frozen water would have a mass somewhere between 10^24 and 10^25 kg, which is roughly the same as the mass of planet earth.
but this is still around a half a million times smaller than the mass of the sun, so weight for weight this would be much like a snowflake landing on your head. so not much would happen perhaps?
but, on account of the considerable gravitationals involved, an ice-comet the size of the earth is going to work up a pretty large velocity by the time it goes smash-bang-sizzle into the sun!
so my advice is, stand well back before running this experiment. somewhere around the orbit of pluto perhaps.

Answer 5

This is a very interesting question. I think what you mean is what happens if we drip the sun in a huge sea of water .... well, the trigger of the sun compustion is the extreme pressure of the sun core. The sun mass is so huge that it triggers the hidrogen atoms to fuse and form helium molecules and releasing that tremondous amount of heat. So if we drip the sun in water it will simply continue working because the sun fire does not need oxygen to work, it is result of nuclear fusion which will happen even under water and you will see an unimaginable view of a fireball under water making big blobs because the heat will evaborize the water around the fire ball.

Answer 6

The water would evaporate before reaching the Sun but if it didn't, it would be completely obliterated by the fusion of the Sun. If it survived that, it would just go through the Sun since nothing would happen to it. Oh, and just in case you think the Sun is powered by a flame, it is not. It is powered by the fusion happening inside it that coverts hydrogen into helium which creates energy.

Answer 7

A lot of water vapor.

The sun isn't burning. The light and heat that we see and feel is the result of nuclear fusion that takes place in the sun as it fuses hydrogen into helium. This a function of the immense gravity the sun has and that's what gives off the heat. Think abouit it... There is no oxygen in space to fuel combustion. Certainly not on that level.

Answer 8

The visible surface of the sun is "only" about 6000 degrees. But the gaseous envelope around it (only visible at the eclipse) is a million degrees.

That would take care of any water you would care to mention.

Go get a book on the sun from the library. You obviously have no idea of its size or make up.

Answer 9

The molecules of water would be broken into atoms of hydrogen and oxygen by the heat and the hydrogen would become fuel for the nuclear reactions (fusion of hydrogen into helium) that power the Sun. The oxygen would just sit there doing nothing.

Answer 10

The hydrogen in the water would be added to the existing supply of nuclear fuel. The energy that the water would obtain from gravity in falling to the sun's surface would heat it to roughly the same temperature as the surface.