What happens when?. . .?

Question

Alot of people say that the sun is a star. And what about falling stars everyone tells me thats when the stars light go out. So what happens when the Suns light goes?

Answer 1

First of all the Sun is a star. It is a medium sized star that emits a medium amount of energy. It is a main sequence yellow star on the H-R diagram.
There is no such thing as a falling star. When people say that they see a falling or shooting star, they are actually seeing a meteoroid. When the Sun dies, so will we----if there is any life left on Earth then.

Answer 2

'falling stars' are in fact meteroids plunging into the earth's atmosphere. These meteroits are small particles, the size of millimeters up to some centimeters.

The sun in relation is huuuuuuughe.
Its more than a 100 times larger than earth.
other stars you see are actually the size of the sun, even larger. they just appear as small dots, since they are very far away related to distances you are used to in your life.
even the sun is that far away that light takes about 8 minutes before it reaches us

soo what happens to the sun if it 'dies' .. ?
well.. nothing you need to fear of, the next 4 to 5 billion years.

the sun shines because of a complicated fusion process in its inside.
you may imagine this just for simplification reasons as some sort of fire, but extremly hot and effective
One day the material which is currently fueling this fusion will run out.
At this stage the sun will undergo a change and start burning other material which is contained in there.
It may sound a bit weird, but it'll cause the sun to get bigger and will eventually consume everything which is nearer to the sun as mars.
After some time this fuel may be empty too, and the sun will eventually collapse to a tiny shining remnant, called 'white dwarf star', slowly burning everything else which is still inside
and slowly getting colder and colder and finally end as an unspectacular mass in space. no more shining.

But as i said .. no earlier than 4 to 5 billion years from now.
and that is ... more or less beyond imagination, and should not cause you to book a flight out of the solar system at this time...

Answer 3

Falling stars or shooting stars are actually meteoroids burning up in our atmosphere.

Our sun will end its use full life in about 5 billion years but mankind and Earth will long since been dead. In about 1 billion years the suns output will be so great as to burn off the atmosphere and boil off all of the water on Earth. About a billion or 2 years after that, the sun will swell into a red giant wiping out Mercury, likely Venus, and maybe Earth (although Earth's orbit may be pushed back a bit).

Global warming is NOTHING compared to what WILL happen later on.

Answer 4

In the first place a falling star is not a star at all, it is a meteorite falling through the upper earths atmosphere, that is what makes it look bright, is it is burning up as it trys to enter.

I believe it will be millions of years before our sun dies or burns out, which will happen eventually, but I would not worry about that in our lifetime.

My guess is our sun will become a dead body floating in space, until another force with greater gravity attracts it or hits it and it will either become a moon or will break apart, and become space rocks or a asteroid belt.

Answer 5

"falling stars" are really meteorites - bits of dust that enter our atmosphere at great speeds (like 30,000 - 50,000 miles per hour), and burn up.

The sun IS a star, and when it has exhausted it's hydrogen fuel, (about 50-60 billion years from now), it will swell up to be a red giant for a brief period (about 3-10 million years). It will engulf Mercury, Venus, and Earth, and Mars will be roasted. After that, it will shrink down to a much smaller size than it is today, a white dwarf, and eventually cool off & die.

But, we'll be long gone when all that happens.

Answer 6

The sun will expand into a Giant in around 5 billion years incinerate the inner Solar system planets and then shrink down to a dwarf star.

Answer 7

Falling stars are meteors, not stars going out. As the sun dies it will rapidly expand engulfing the Earth in flames. Then it make shrink down after shedding a lot of matter and become roughly the same size again, then re-expand and become a planetary nebula. After reshrinking to a white dwarf it will slowly become dimmer and dimmer until it is a mass of crystallized carbon.

Answer 8

Falling stars are not stars. When an asteroid enters the atmosphere it burns. That's what we call a falling star. When a star dies (it's light goes out) it turns into a black hole.

Answer 9

The sun is projected to end it's useful life in about 5 billion years.

Answer 10

Yes! you are right. Scientists are now saying sun will also burn itself and fall down after 20 to 30 million years. So, my expectation is it will. Thankyou.