What would happen if the sun and moon collided or exploded ?whats the next closest planet to earth for living?

Answer 1

If we lost the Moon, the tides would be greatly reduced, which would impact sea life, possibly leading to food shortages. In the longer term, having lost the stabilizing influence of the Moon, Earth's axial tilt may change, causing extreme seasons. Even so, Earth would probably remain the most hospitable planet within reach.

The Sun would not be significantly affected by being hit by the Moon, as the size difference is huge. Of more concern would be whatever cosmic catastrophe knocked the Moon out of orbit in the first place. If we did lose the Sun, we'd pretty much all die. Possibly a few survivors would manage to create a livable artificial habitat, but the prognosis for the human race would be poor.

In general, though, the chance of any of this happening is only slightly greater than an attack by a planet-eating space goat, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

Answer 2

Moon's explosion which is located at 1/4 million miles may not cause much damage to Earth except that it would pollute the surroundings with debris which would be a factor to reckon with for future space explorations.We would of course be devoid of beautiful moon-lit nights which have inspired many.On the other hand Sun's explosion will be more than a catastrophe. Despite a distance of 93 million miles the radiation(it would be an atomic explosion) will bring large devastation. With Sun gone there would of course be no light and the plant life would perish followed by all life on Earth. The temperatures would drop and Earth would probably be a frozen mass. While all this goes on having lost its driver the planet would as per Newton's first law would continue its sojourn in a straight line in the dark space may be for a long time until it enters the gravitational field of another star.Depending on its orbital distance things would change shape. The ice caps would melt and if conditions are congenial the life forms might take shape. This is the familiar thought process as we can conceive of as far as we know.

Answer 3

Do you know how enormous the sun is? If the moon hit the sun it wouldn't destroy it. Are you asking if the moon were to go out of orbit to the sun, or if the sun came to the moon? Because if the latter, we would be incinerated. If the sun exploded, if we weren't destroyed by the explosion itself, we would die pretty quickly in the cold, and our food wouldn't grow without the sun for photosynthesis. We orbit around the sun so without it, we'd probably be thrown through space in the explosion and who knows what would happen. Without the sun we have nothing.
There is no planet we know of that has the atmospheric components and temperature range viable to humans that we could go to if we needed.

Answer 4

The Moon would just make the sun *fart*... not big enough to cause it to implode....

That being said, lets say the Earth was still rendered unlivable.

Two answers come to mind; near and far.

Near; Mars..... but a LOT of terraforming. We'd live in bubbles extracting water from the ice at the polar caps. We'd also have to look at ice-mining the moons around the other planets.

Far; Alpha Centauri..... but four light years to get there. Current technology means it would be a generational ship traveling there and it would be several generations born and died on that ship before it got to Alpha Centauri prime. That is also assuming that Alpha Prime is habitable, it is in the right orbital pattern, but it could still SUCK to live there.....

Answer 5

1st ???, that wouldn't happen, the moon is only 3479 kilometers and the sun is 1,392,000 kilometers. the moon would barely make a dent if it even had the chance to reach the sun without burning up first.

2nd ???, there would be nowhere to live, things can't grow and flourish without the sun, we'd have to move to a new galaxy all together, one with at least 1 sun.

Answer 6

We'd be in trouble.

We have NO real spaceflight capability as a race, so we'd all watch as either (1) the Sun would temporarily flare up to cook the Earth, or (2) the Earth's orbit would leave its optimum track, leaving us to either freeze or roast (depending on whether we shifted farther or nearer).

Talk about a mess...!

Answer 7

I don0t think that those two could collide, since they're so far away.... to provoke a deviation in moon's orbit would be necessary a big shock on it's surface from a big asteroid.. such a shoc would probably destroy it instead of deviating it...

Answer 8

If the sun and moon collided...well first they couldn't collide the moon would be instantly incinerated.
If the event of the explosion.......stick your head between your legs and kiss your @$$ good-bye

Answer 9

Well first of all if that would happen, the sun would be no more so there would'nt be anyplace around here to live on it would be too cold

Answer 10

If the sun were to supernova it would take 8 minutes for us to know, and eight minutes for us to live.