Would it be possible for any humans to survive if our sun went super nova hypothetically?

Answer 1

Not unless we had left the region. Even inside the Earth we wouldn't survive because our Earth would be torn apart, some radiation would still reach us and we would have nothing to go back to on the surface (take your pick of the best reason).

But the one fellow is right, our sun is not massive enough to supernova it will turn into a red giant (which would likely kill us anyway from the increased radiation) and then would slowly collapse, then shed it's layers as a planetary nebula.

Even if it were large enough we would get a warning though, a star swells (to a red supergiant) before it supernovas!

Answer 2

Nope, not anywhere nearby. A supernova puts out about 10^11 times as much power as the Sun. Radiated power is inversely proportional to the square of your distance from the source. So if you were 10^5.5 times our distance from the sun, that's 300 000 times 150 million km, or 45 million million km from the Sun; about the distance to Alpha Centauri, the supernova would zap you with about as much heat as the Sun does now. So you'd need to be at least 4 light years away to survive unless you were very well shielded, like being on the opposite side of a planet with no atmosphere.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. A supernova is a massive explosion that would completely decimate the solar system and everything around for a couple light years. Unless there were some colonies of humans well away from our solar system, we would not survive. Nothing could survive a blast that powerfull. take this as consolation though: Sol is not massive enough to go supernova. yes I knew you said hypothetically, I was merely stating a fact.
You're welcome.

Answer 4

only if we had time to devlope a way of leaving the solar system...either as an entire race on a "star ark" or by some feat of stellar engineering we could move the entire planet...

there'd be no way for the human race to survive Sol going supernova...the explosion and gravitational collapse would tear most of the solar system apart....

and of course since the speed of light is the speed limit for the universe, we'd get no warning, as the flash would be seen seconds before the shockwave hit the planet

Answer 5

If we are nevertheless residing in the international while the sunlight is going to explode to alter right into a crimson massive (by utilising the way, the sunlight will on no account turn supernova because of the fact its mass is only too small for that) we've no possibilities in besides to stay to tell the story that. yet do no longer difficulty, this would possibly not happen in the past 5 billion years from now!

Answer 6

If the sun went supernova, the entire solar system would be completely wiped out, not just Earth.

Answer 7

Only if we take up interstellar travel before that happens!
I should point out though...the sun will NOT go supernova...it doesn't have enough mass for that.
It will become a red giant and grow to a diameter large enough to swallow up all the inner planet's orbits.

Answer 8

I would say not now.

But we have millions of years to develop tech that could:
A) Protect us and our planet from the heat of the explosion (But we'd still be left without a light source)
B) Get us the hell out of here and to another system

Answer 9

None whatsoever. The supernova would consume well past our earth and cook it to nothing.

Answer 10

no but that's not gonna happen now
wait a minute. oh my god the sun is huge
i'm melting!