Is there anything in the vast universe that could "take out" the sun, or make it burn dimmer, ?
2007-09-18 16:27:26 · 8 answers · asked by Scorpius59 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
First of all..the Earth and all the other planets in our solar system revolve around the sun. So there are planets in motion on the other side of the sun and in 1/2 a year or in 182 days we will be on the "other side of the sun".
Second, the sun is a big ball of gas that is slowly burning itself out, granted this will take millions of years but it will not last forever. Stars that approach "burning out" go through several changes before this happens. One of the stages is Red Giant, where the sun expands to many times larger than it currently is. Then it becomes a Pulsar or Quasar. It eventually will collapse and become what we believe to be a "black hole". A black hole is a an inconceivable gravitational force that sucks everything in (even light). The Earth will be gone long before that however, but don't worry it will take millions of years and by then if we are still around we will have figured out how to move to another Galaxy.
2007-09-20 02:34:44 · answer #1 · answered by ccnice1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there's nothing really on the other side except planets since they all revolve around it. But i suppose a black hole could take out the sun. As it gets older over a long long long period of time it will become dimmer
2007-09-18 23:33:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's on the 'other' side of the Sun is the space we'll be in 6 months (since Earth orbits around the Sun). If there were anything 'out there' heading our way, we'd see it.
As far as anything that could 'take-out' the Sun? Very unlikely. It woulld have to be something nearly as large as the Sun itself.
Doug
2007-09-18 23:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
On the other side of the sun - just more of the same as on this side.
A large nebula or dust cloud could block the sun, but there isn't one anywhere nearby and none coming this way.
Nothing that we know of could extinguish any star.
2007-09-18 23:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
On the other side of the Sun there is the other half of radiation it emits and to which we are not exposed to.
2007-09-18 23:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by -fui- 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wait six months and look up. That is what is on the other side right now.
2007-09-19 19:37:44 · answer #6 · answered by John B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
just more stars and stuff, the stars are rotating out there so you've seen them already
2007-09-19 09:42:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya our moon have you ever heard of a lunar or solar eclipse
2007-09-18 23:32:17 · answer #8 · answered by CPL. WOODS USMC 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋