2006-08-26 17:20:18 · 8 answers · asked by icu686 1 in Environment
If the sun burned out, there would be no earth. When a star dies, or "burns out" it goes through something called a 'Super Nova'. Which is basically nothing more than a huge explosion that will wipe out the earth and the rest of our solar system. Our sun, unfortunately, only has about 3-4 billion more years of life.
But, if the sun were to 'burn out', the temperature would go through an extreme change. And after a few billion years of cooling down, the surface temperature would eventially be the equivalent to that of the temperature in outer space- which varies based on its location.
" We usually use the Kelvin temperature scale, where Zero Kelvin is this "absolute zero" temperature -- or -273 degrees C. Water freezes at +273 Kelvin and water boils at +373 Kelvin.If we put a thermometer in darkest space, with absolutely nothing around, it would first have to cool off. This might take a very very long time. Once it cooled off, it would read 2.7 Kelvin. This is because of the "3 degree microwave background radiation." No matter where you go, you cannot escape it -- it is always there." -http://www.funtrivia.com/ask.cfm?action=details&qnid=53516
2006-08-26 17:40:41 · answer #1 · answered by maxomous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess we'll just have to wait for the sun to burn out, won't we?
But in all seriousness, it would probably be a lot colder than any temperatures on Earth now, most likely too cold for us to survive. It'll probably be warmest closest to the core... Eh... what am I talking about...? Who knows?
2006-08-26 17:32:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Eventually the earth would achieve the temperature of the cosmic background radiation. But it would take a very long time, as the earth's interior stores a lot of heat, and is making more from radioactivity.
2006-08-26 17:27:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even Exxon/Mobile couldn't save us.
I would venture a guess at close to absolute zero. The only energy we would get would be from very distant stars and the geo-thermal energy from the earth - which would dissapate very quickly.
2006-08-26 17:25:26 · answer #4 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm assuming absolute zero since wed have no heat source and we'd all die almost instantly
2006-08-26 17:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by buttcheeks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
zero degrees kelvin?? -273 degrees farenheit (just guessing)
2006-08-26 18:51:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
o degrees kelvin, kinda cold molecules,electron, stop moving
2006-08-26 17:26:53 · answer #7 · answered by Patrick Bateman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pretty cold.
2006-08-26 17:25:21 · answer #8 · answered by kristycordeaux 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋