of the fact???why??can u explain???
2006-10-10 00:59:42 · 9 answers · asked by ezel 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes because it takes eight minutes for light to reach us from the sun... If you are looking at the night sky at a star that is 1000 light years away, the star could have exploded 500 years ago and no one on Earth would see the explosion happen for another 500 years...
2006-10-10 01:13:18 · answer #1 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes that is true. It does take 8 minutes for the light from the Sun to reach the Earth. Because of this if the Sun stopped shining we wouldn't know for a full 8 minutes!
2006-10-10 01:53:31 · answer #2 · answered by Krissy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It takes eight minutes for any radiation to reach Earth from the Sun. This includes light and heat, so It would also start to get very cold and dark. Assuming the Sun was still there and exerting a gravitational influence, we would remain in orbit and slowly starve and freeze to death, with only a few survivors who could grow enough crops under artificial lights to get by. Volcanic activity would continue, so it might be a bit warmer inside your local caldera, but the real estate would be expensive. Temperatures would eventually drop to a level not much higher than absolute zero.
And only eight minutes to prepare for it. Darn!
Hope this helps
2006-10-10 01:14:02 · answer #3 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes this is true as it takes light a full 8 mins to travel the distance between the Sun and the Earth.
2006-10-10 01:02:20 · answer #4 · answered by Stuart T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
O.ok., for starters-if the Earth stopped rotating on its axis, there could be little stream interior the ambience besides because of the fact the oceans. this could result the two our climate and the temperature of the ambience-plus its skill to get rid of impurities (smog, volcanic ash, and so forth.). If the Earth have been to provide up in its orbit around the sunlight, it does not have sufficient forward velocity=centrifugal stress, to maintain a super course. ultimately gravity (the two from the sunlight or outer area), could take over, at which factor it quite is a one-way fee ticket to the two of those. so a techniques, i did no longer see any point out of the Moon in those solutions. on account it is held in stress wager. the Earth and the sunlight, it may likely hit Earth in the two circumstances. it quite is a bad hair day. Afterthought-it may even impression plate stream decrease than the Earth's crust, too. no longer that it may matter-because each and every physique could be long gone. This (plate tectonic component), is yet another question...
2016-10-16 00:58:46 · answer #5 · answered by kigar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, light takes 8 minutes to get from the surface of the Sun to the Earth.
Light takes about a million years to get from the center of the Sun to the surface. So there is no way that the Sun can just "turn off" faster than a million years or so.
2006-10-10 03:43:25 · answer #6 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree since the sun's light travel from sun to Earth will take about 8 minutes. However, it won't happen until at least between 10 to 20 or even more generations from you---it won't happen that fast.
2006-10-10 01:08:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it was night-time it would take even longer.
2006-10-10 01:59:32 · answer #8 · answered by Niche Jerk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yup. No time to explain. Gotta go....
2006-10-10 01:07:27 · answer #9 · answered by MrZ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋