Will the Sun destroy itself?

One day, about 4 billion or 5 billion years from now, the sun will burn through its last gasp of hydrogen and start burning helium instead. “Once hydrogen has stopped burning in the core of the sun, the star has formally left the main sequence and can be considered a red giant,” Scudder said.

How long until the Sun is destroyed?

Stars, like the Sun, start to ‘die’ when they’ve burnt all of their hydrogen fuel. At this point, they expand and become a very large kind of star called a red giant. It’s thought this stage will happen to our Sun in around five billion years.

What would happen if the Sun were destroyed?

A relatively simple calculation would show that the Earth’s surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months if the Sun were shut off. The current mean temperature of the Earth’s surface is about 300 Kelvin (K). This means in two months the temperature would drop to 150K, and 75K in four months.

Is the Sun shrinking?

The sun is growing. And shrinking, and growing again. Every 11 years, the sun’s radius oscillates by up to two kilometres, shrinking when its magnetic activity is high and expanding again as the activity decreases. We already know that the sun is not a static object.

How can we destroy the Sun?

To “destroy” the Sun, blow it apart Death Star style, we’d need to overcome it’s gravitational binding energy. That’s 6.87×10 41 J. To do that we’d have to fire the Earth at the Sun at 9/10ths the speed of light. We can’t do that. There’s nothing we can currently do to destroy, disassemble, or accelerate the exhaustion of our Sun’s fuel.

What would happen if the sun exploded like this?

If the sun suddenly exploded like this, the whole solar system would be destroyed. You don’t have to worry though – only stars ten times the size of our sun, or bigger, can explode like this. Our sun will end its life in a different way. A supernova is like bursting a balloon.

How long will it take for the sun to destroy Earth?

In fact, scientists believe that we still have about 5 to 7 billion more years until this will happen. Once the hydrogen dies out, gravity will then engulf the sun and the remaining hydrogen will let off its remaining heat at which point the sun will expand and eat up the whole Earth.

Could you try to kill the sun god?

Unfortunately, some people do not believe that God exists, and therefore you would have trouble convincing them that the sun was indeed destroyed. Option 3: According to some other religions, you could try to kill the sun god. However, you would have the same problem mentioned in Option 2.