When the sun dies what do you think will happen to the outer planets?

Answer 1

The sun will not just "die". If you mean by ending it's life, then there is a long process. First, the sun will expand. It will envelop Mercury and Venus, and reach where Earth is. Earth, however, will escape because the sun will lose mass, making less of a gravitational pull. All the oceans and life on Earth will be disintegrated because of heat, so it will become barren. The sun will then shrink into a white dwarf, and all the outer planets will slowly drift out of orbit. It will be extremely cold. One thing to note is that there may be a sister star to the sun, Nemesis. This star has not been found, but is a possibility. If Nemesis does exist, then it will come back in the next few billion years and probably pluck a few planets away. Basically, when the sun goes down, the solar system becomes a lifeless, unorganized junkyard of metal and rock.

Answer 2

When Sol goes nova, the inner planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will literally be consumed in the fireball, where Jupiter and Saturn, being composed primarily of gas, will have their atmospheres stripped off into space (think of the wind and sand on a beach) but the Outer planets, Uranus and Neptune will largely be unaffected due to their distance, so they will in all probability become rogue planets, forever wandering space.

Answer 3

The sun will not explode however with it's significant decreased mass the outer most planets will start to drift endlessly in space and become rouge planets. For the planets that were unable to escape the sun gravity even in death when the core of the sun cools, the will eventually become cold dark objects in space

Answer 4

when the sun dies (estimated 5 billion years from now) it will swell to a red giant (swallowing earth, mercury, and Venus) then it will shrink to a white dwarf

after that one of three things will happen

1. the planets that warrant consumed by the red giant stage will spin off into the Galaxy (my best guess)

2. the planets will stay in orbit (if the white dwarf contains its original mass)

3. the mass of the white dwarf grows and pulls some (probably not all) of the planets in to its self (not likely)

Answer 5

The expanding sun will never reach the outer planets.
they will freeze up more and eventually disappear when the universe comes to an end.

Answer 6

The solar will change right into a red good sized in 5 billion years. After yet another billion years it is going to start up to shed mass on its thanks to growing a white dwarf. The outer planets will orbit the a lot less large solar in additional beneficial orbits. i do not trust the planets have a huge adequate speed to flee the image voltaic device.

Answer 7

All planets in our solar system will be annihilated and blown up due to the solar blast a dying star creates.

Answer 8

They will vaporize one by one as the sun goes through it dieing stages

Answer 9

Not much. They receive so little in the way of light/heat from Sol in any case, that whatever effect there is will be minimal.

Answer 10

well when the sun dies it would probaly explode, so then there would be nothing left of the planets