if the sun burns out,will there be life on earth?

Question

will there be life on earth when the sun burns out?

Answer 1

If the Sun burns out (which they don't expect to happen for a good few billion years) it would actually expand first and incinerate the Earth - If it just fizzled out (unlikely), life could exist as life exists deep in the Oceans with no sun light using the Earths own heat from vents in the surface.

Answer 2

I don't know if the sun's more likely to burn out or explode. In the case of the sun "burning out" the earth would become instantly frigid. Obviously nothing could exist without the sun. I'm not even sure if Earth would remain in it's normal path because the Solar in "Solar System" wouldn't exist.

There would be life on Earth in the sense that nothing can ever entirely disappear. I suppose it's also a question of what you consider life.

Answer 3

Well there will be for about 8.5 more minutes until the last of the light reaches Earth. Then there will be a 2nd Ice Age within a few days. And we will all die. I'm not kidding. But don't worry! The sun won't burn out for at least 10 billion more years. :D

Answer 4

No. If the sun burns out, there will be 8 minutes left of light on the earth, and then it will be complete darkness. Without the light and heat of the sun, the world will freeze, and there is debate amoungst astronomers whether or not the sun will create a blackhole and we will get sucked into it and die.

Answer 5

existence on earth will develop into extinct "until now" the solar burns out. the unquestionably existence-cycle of our solar would be as follows: First, while the solar depletes that is hydrogen that is going to hyper-dilate one hundred circumstances its mass right into a helium-burning purple massive movie star. This catastrophic journey will discharge a surprising hyper-radiation burst and flash which will fry each little thing on the face of the Earth and it will improve to previous the orbit of the Earth, between the planet Mars and the Earth. The Earth will might desire to react comparable to a billiard ball because of the fact the marvel wave of the hyper-dilation impounds into the Earth, for this reason that is going to likely be knocked out of its orbital direction a re-set up a clean orbit extra out from the stellar center of our photograph voltaic equipment. it may develop right into a dull planet, having its entire ecosystem and water torn away via the Hyper-Dilation journey. at last, the solar will burn up its helium and then undergo a Nebula Discontinuity journey, the place its outer shell would be expelled in an magnificent explosion of its photosphere, and the large weight of its gravity will reason an inner "crunch" of its mass, compressing its protons right into a dense White Dwarf movie star equivalent to the mass of the Earth yet nonetheless keeping the electromagnetic container of a G-2 classification considerable series movie star.

Answer 6

just to put 5 billion years in to perspective - the dinosaurs were phased out about 65 million years ago, right? 5,000 million is 5 billion.. roughly 80 times longer than the time that has passed since the dinosaurs went extinct. in all likelyhood, we will destroy ourselves or be destroyed or have evolved far enough from our current forms where homo sapiens will not care what happens then

however.. (and this is assuming that the sun doesn't completely devour us in its first phases of death AND the planet hasn't been cooled by then) i think it's possible for microbial life to live deep in the oceans thriving off of sulfur vents and for a foodchain to develop there like there is today.. but with limited energy coming from the vents and an increased rate of heat dissapation after we stopped recieving solar energy, evolution would be somewhat.. pointless?
but i'll be dead and gone by then anyways so i'm not too depressed about it.

Answer 7

The sun wont burn out and it is not big enough to make a supernova, it will simply implode and make a black hole, sucking everything in, but if the sun loses all of its gravity then the 8 planets(Pluto is no longer a planet) will be hurled due to the loss of the suns orbital gravitational pull.

Answer 8

The sun will become a red giant in around 4 billion years, engulf the earth and vaporize it before it burns out. You don't have to worry about freezing.

Answer 9

Without the sun or moon we are all DOOMED!
Anyway, I don't think it will burn out. But in 5 billion years (I think) the sun will grow until it is 10 times bigger than now, and it would actually eat the earth.

Answer 10

um no, if the sun burns out we will reach what is " cataclystic ice-age) it's a period when the earth completely freezes due to lack of sun-light. And since we need palnt life to breathe and vegetaion to eat and stay healthy without it, we will suffer and die.