If the sun died?

Question

If the sun died, what would happen? Would we just freeze to death, get toasted or maybe something else? Have always wondered :)

Answer 1

What the hell? The sun will not become a neutron star or black hole and we wouldn't freeze! people are seriously making stuff up lol! The sun would first expand into a red giant. This is because it runs out of Hydrogen in it's core and so starts burning Helium, and then other elements. When it expands it will pretty much vapourise the inner planets including the Earth, but this won't happen for another 5 billion years don't worry. After expanding the sun will collapse in, until it becomes a white dwarf. This is a much smaller star (essentially made mostly from the sun's core), and although at first very hot as it's surface area has decreased so the heat is concentrated more into one place, it will slowly cool until it is just a dead star. Stars around 1.4 solar masses or more become neutron stars, as they have enough mass and so enough gravity to squish all the atoms really close together and become very dense when they collapse in on themselves. Stars of 3 solar masses or more collapse so much they become black holes- the gravity completely takes control and squishes the entire star into a point of infinite density from which not even light can escape! But the Sun is not massive enough to do either of these. It is about an average sized star.

Answer 2

It depends on how the sun died. If you mean that it runs out of fuel for its fussion and fission reactions and then slows down and collapses upon itself, we'll probably freeze first and then get sucked into a black hole as the sun collapses. Now if the sun some how goes Supernova, which usually doens't happen until much later in a star's life (our sun is a baby), we'd burn baby burn in a matter of seconds and then our atomized remains will be sucked into a black hole. Now if the sun lives a normal life span, with in a few million years the Earth will be in the corona of the sun anyway, so no matter what we're going to have to find a new planet to live on or some other fantasical solution. So I hope, like the sun, I've brightened your day. Because no matter what the sun will kill this planet. ;)

Answer 3

we will first get toasted and then freeze

As the Sun grows old, it will expand. As the core runs out of hydrogen and then helium, the core will contact and the outer layers will expand, cool, and become less bright. It will become a red giant star.

After this phase, the outer layers of the Sun will continue to expand. As this happens, the core will contract; the helium atoms in the core will fuse together, forming carbon atoms and releasing energy. The core will then be stable since the carbon atoms are not further compressible.

Then the outer layers of the Sun drift off into space, forming a planetary nebula (a planetary nebula has nothing to do with planets), exposing the core.

Most of its mass will go to the nebula. The remaining Sun will cool and shrink; it will eventually be only a few thousand miles in diameter!

Answer 4

Our sun will die in about 4 billion years. It will go Red giant which will almost reach the earth and fry us to a cinder. THen it will collapse to a white dwarf and we will freeze. If it suddenly just "died" tomorrow (became a white dwarf). We would freeze in a few days.

Answer 5

simonsmit i'm afraid you are wrong. not millions of light years but 9 1/2 minutes. light travelling at 186000 miles per second. we would all freeze a little after the light ceased. of course the sun dies by going super nova. in which case we would all and everything be incinerated instantly

Answer 6

if the sun died, all the trees would die first, which would led to the death of every living organisms.
if the sun died, the earth would become cold, everything would be frozen

Answer 7

In a documentary I saw it explained that the sun would burn hotter and hotter until burning itself out in a huge inferno. So of course we would all die off through overheating first. Or starvation if we tried to hide below ground.

Answer 8

you would actually die of roasting to death.
The sun would get bigger and bigger then it would explode and turn into a black hole or a Dwarf star. But this will take a couple hundred years because it cant just blow up in 24 hours!! But this just wont happen, it will blow up in about couple hundred BILLION years!!!

Answer 9

wed be fugged fall out of orbit eventually have no light be night all the time, nothing would grow we would freeze maybe get sucked into jupiters orbit and get smashed to bits... I would move all my savings into a sunbed/ultraviolet light company!

Answer 10

Have to read the Daily Mirror