If the sun blows up today will we be hurled into space right away?

Answer 1

Well, the question doesn't really make sense, since the sun can't "blow up" in an common meaning of the phrase. Instead, our sun will eventually swell in size and burn out, but not "explode" (like a nova or super nova). But if somehow it did (playing the S.F. game), then still no. First, the Earth is already "in space". But what you mean is, will it be pushed off, out of the solar system, traveling far away? Still no. Instead, it would most likely just be "incinerated". There's no air in space to carry a concussive blast (like an explosion on earth), so the same thing that would be doing the "hurling" is the super-heated plasma that would simultaneously incinerate it. A good example is ground zero, Hiroshima. The stuff farther out was "hurled away," but the stuff at ground zero was instantly vaporized.

Answer 2

It depends on the nature and power of the explosion. Since the Sun is not likely to do it on its own in the near future, some sort of incomprehensible device or phenomenon must be employed. We're talking about something a hundred times as wide as the Earth and 93 million miles away. That's a lot of energy to account for.

A disruption severe enough to tear the Sun apart would probably not be symmetrical but who knows? Assuming a representative sample of Sun guts splattered us, the first thing to arrive would be the radiation, eight minutes later, then the charged mass particles a few hours later perhaps. Serious wads of plasma might take a day or three. If it's massive enough to knock what's left of the Earth out of orbit, it may not be enough to achieve escape velocity from whatever Sun mass is still in the area, which means former Earth will wobble around until things settle down into some new type of stability. If it does escape, you still have 600 trillion tons of dirt to shove a few billion miles before it's officially ejected. That will take time. There are a lot of variables we haven't nailed down but you need to keep in mind the scale of mass and distance involved in celestial demolition derbies. And this would be a modest one.

Answer 3

The scientific scenario of the sun's death (and every other star) is that the sun becomes a red giant before collapsing into a white dwarf, and during the red giant phase it expands to reach Earth and fries it.
But if you want to create a different death scenario that the sun suddenly explodes and disappears, and if we ignore the effect of this explosion directly on earth, then what would happen is that the earth would so simply keep floating the same direction it was going just the second before the explosion, and this direction is exactly the tangent at the eclipse that represents the Earth's orbit around the "former sun". So the path of earth becomes straight, it's just like you were holding something in your hand and turning with it quickly, and suddenly released it, its path would be the tangent at the circle of rotation you were making, at the point you left it.

Answer 4

We would know within 8 minutes, the sun would explode, destroying the planet with a shock wave, if we survived that( very unlikely), we would be hurled into space and we would freeze to death.
The good thing is that we would all be dead before the sun literally kept shining, because it would happen so fast we would not know what hit us.

Answer 5

Well first you have to stop and consider what would happen if the sun did blow up. The sun would first start to expand in order to burn the helium. It would expand intill the temp got to much and killed the human race and then the planet would then be turned to ash when the expansion took us over. If the sun just shut off all of a sudden light would go out in 8 min. (It takes 8 min for us to receive light from the sun)We would then freeze to death. Life would be gone as we know it.

Answer 6

no if the sun blew up instantly we would be incinerated 8 1/2 minnuts latter by the force.

Answer 7

If the Big Bang was an explosion thern can you get a second explosion out of the same explosion.So it seems that the sun would fit that scenario.

Answer 8

Nope, we'd freeze in a few hours.