What is going to happen to the planets in our solar system when the sun "dies"?

Question

When the sun is dead, gone, burned out, or however you'd like to put it, what is going to happen to earth and the other planets.? Well they still be pulled by the sun's gravity, or will they just fly off course?

Answer 1

well the only reason planets revolve around the sun is due to gravity which provides a centripetal force to the planets which keeps them in orbit.
and since gravity is an inherent property(depends on mass and not on conditions like volume or temparature )......and if the sun dosent explode or become a black hole or a white dwarf....the planets will continue to rotate in orbit
however if just before dyin it expands into a red giant it will engulf all the other planets and asteroids in the solar system
if it becomes a black hole ...well then anyway we all jump into it

Answer 2

Well, there are 3 scenarios: 1.) The Sun will expand pushing the planets out of their orbits.

2.) The Sun will expand, engulfing the inner planets including Earth and leaving the outer planets intact.

3.) The sheer heat of the Sun will reduce the inner planets to slag leaving the outer planets intact.

Answer 3

before the sun dies, it will expand its outer atmosphere vastly, thereby engulging all the inner planets, including Earth, in a very hot and fiery end. the sun will then slowly, but surely burn out the remaining nuclear fuel and eventually become a large, dense hunk of iron.

I think that the outer planets that survive this catostrophe will still be pulled by the sun so long as the mass of the sun still remains.

if we were talking about a star which was much more massive than our sun, the final stage of the iron star would be so dense and so compact that it would "punch" a hole through space itself; producing the infamous black hole. any planet nearby a black hole is doomed.

Answer 4

Based on what we observe of stars around the same mass of our sun, we know that the sun is going to turn into a red giant. It'll expand and actually swallow the earth and perhaps mars. We will vaporize. The rest of the solar system will just go on its merry way ... the center of mass of the sun will stay the same.

Answer 5

Since one of the phases of the Sun's death is expansion to a red giant, most of the inner planets will be engulfed, and destroyed. The whole solar system will change, since the gravitational forces that keep it together will have change.

Answer 6

Eris, the biggest dwarf planet customary, grew to become into chanced on in an ongoing survey at Palomar Observatory's Samuel Oschin telescope via astronomers Mike Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory), and David Rabinowitz (Yale college). We formally mentioned the call on 6 September 2006, and it grew to become into extensive-unfold and introduced on 13 September 2006.

Answer 7

the sun will become a red giant just before it dies, and it will engulf the earth and other planets...and that's the end of our solar system.

Answer 8

The sun will never die.