Exact # please :)
2007-02-23 04:33:18 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
--skepsis--
It was a question for science you know it all! Stop acting like a *** & just answer the damn question! Geese! People these days...Always getting under my skin... Haha
2007-02-25 04:52:12 · update #1
The sun will not "explode" like a supernova, but it is believed that it will eventually blow off its outer layers in a planetary nova in about 5 billion years.
2007-02-23 05:23:14 · answer #1 · answered by ixfd64 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is it about kids and explosions? When will the Sun explode? When will the Earth explode? When will your head explode? Explosion questions pop up here all the time and no one knows why.
Until we know the exact number, type and location of ever atom in the Sun, there won't be an "exact" answer to your question. Also, there's no guaranty that the Sun's "explosion" will be something that our descendants will be able to watch.
APPROXIMATELY 5 billion years from now, give or take a bill, the Sun's hydrogen will be exhausted, all converted to Helium and a few other elements, so it will have to start fusing Helium, but before that, there will be some adjustments as the pressure, radiation and gravity work out a new stability. In the mean time, the Sun is predicted to expand tremendously, possibly beyond the orbit of Earth, before collapsing into the new configuration. But it won't be the dramatic, Star Wars Death Star explosion we're used to. It will likely take years, hundreds of years, or thousands of years. It would be measureable, even dangerous, but boring to watch. It would look more like an inflation than a kaboom. So you may not want to buy a ticket to the show.
2007-02-23 07:27:29 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sunlight is too small for it to ever explode. notwithstanding in about 7 billion years, it is going to provide up fusing hydrogen in it really is center and fuse helium as a replace, growing to be so great that it will envelope the orbit of Mercury, Venus and perhaps the Earth too. apparently the Earth will likely no longer be destroyed at the same time as the daylight envelopes it because the daylight's ecosystem will be too skinny at this factor. Any people residing there absolutely will notwithstanding so until eventually we make rockets to pass to different planets, then sure, all the people and flora will die. do not problem notwithstanding, we've were given some billion years to artwork it out.
2016-12-04 20:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by plyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun will not explode; it does not have the mass to go supernova and explode.
The Sun as we currently know it, will have run the course of its main life in about 5 billion years; when its hydrogen fuel is exhausted, the Sun will start expanding and will become a red giant. It will probably engulf Mercury and Venus; as for the Earth, its orbit might be altered because of all the changes both in the Sun and in the Solar System.
2007-02-27 08:24:19 · answer #4 · answered by Tenebra98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not for a very, very long time. Stars shine because a huge amount of energy is created in their cores by a process called nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion happens when lighter elements, like hydrogen, are combined into heavier elements, like helium. In about 5 billion years, the hydrogen in the sun's core will run out and the sun will not have enough fuel for nuclear fusion. So, in about 5 billion years, the sun will stop shining.
2007-03-02 12:09:34 · answer #5 · answered by trying to help 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun will not explode; it's mass is not enough to become dense enough to end in a supernova. However, in about 4.5 billion years from now, the sun will run out of hydrogen to turn into helium and will puff up into a red giant, which will probably engulf Earth and burn everything up.
2007-02-23 05:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by dogluva9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a few billion years, the sun will start to puff up into a red giant. During this expansion, it will engulf all the inner planets of the solar system.
Once it finally runs out of fuel, it will start to contract and become a brown dwarf star.
The sun doesn't have enough mass to blow up in a nova or supernova. It will just shrink down and cool off.
2007-02-23 04:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by Jared Z 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it will burn out like any star, or go SuperNova, but not EXPLODE.....an exact # is not published yet for sure
Heres an exact date dec 21 2012 the Myan calander ends
2007-03-02 08:26:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 6:37 AM Saturday 24, est in the year 2,000,000,007, give or take a couple of nano seconds.
I could be off a bit!
2007-02-23 04:53:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It won't. It doesn't have enough mass to go nova but it will increase in size and fry the earth in about 4 or 5 billion years.
2007-02-23 04:39:37 · answer #10 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋