Even if you do not know much about science, do not have a good idea of events in outer space, then most of us know that a large yellow object in the sky called the Sun is very important for our existence.
Most of us understand that without the Sun, here on Earth it would be very cold and terribly dark. However, we are curious to know what could happen if our giant source of heat and light suddenly disappears from the firmament.
What happens if the sun disappears?
If the Sun suddenly disappears, then the entire life of our home system will be drawn into a short time frame of global changes. In a very short space of time, an extremely catastrophic change will occur.
For example, within eight minutes after the loss of the Sun, all the planets will leave their usual orbits of rotation around the Luminary. The planets will begin to move in a straight line through space because they will no longer depend on the sun's gravitational pull.
Imagine, freed from the Sun, the planets should generally become wandering objects in space, like the same mythical planet Nibiru. What will happen on the surface of the Earth? Well, a real apocalypse, and much worse than the biblical one.
If the Sun suddenly disappears, then within 8 minutes - the time required for the sun's rays to reach the Earth - terrible changes will begin! As already mentioned, all planets will begin to live on their own.
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Life on Earth without the Sun
The surface of the Earth's oceans will freeze over a period of several months. Without seeing the sun's rays, the blue and warm planet will turn into ice. As the sun's gravitational pull disappears, the Earth will leave orbit in an unpredictable direction. Perhaps, sometime in the future, the Earth will "park" to a star. But until that time …
- It will become unbearably dark on Earth, no sunlight. The moon - if it is not lost - also cannot give the planet even a handful of light, the satellite will have nothing to reflect.
Over the course of a terrifying few days, temperatures will drop to 120 degrees Celsius. Humanity will be forced to seek shelter from the cold underground. On the surface, meanwhile, the eternal process of photosynthesis will stop. Plants will die without receiving light and heat. Without plants, herbivores will die, then carnivores will die.
People who escaped in underground shelters will still live, burrowing deeper under the surface of the dying planet. Microorganisms that find a source of food for energy production deep in the ocean, near thermal zones, will tolerate the cataclysm more calmly.
For the next couple of months, the surface of the ocean will begin to freeze even in places that never knew cold before this frightening event. The cold will achieve the destruction of most of the aquatic flora and fauna that have managed to survive near the surface.
On land, centuries-old trees will probably be able to survive for some time without photosynthesis. The trees must still stand for about a dozen years with the help of stored energy reserves … though in the end they will inevitably die.
Approximately 1000 years will pass, and the water basins of the Earth will finally freeze. During this time, even the deepest areas lying closest to the heat sources of the earth will turn into ice.
Along with the freezing of the oceans, the Earth's temperature will collapse to minus 240 degrees Celsius - a terrible, lethal figure for life! What will happen next? The Earth's atmosphere will collapse, or rather, it will cease to exist.
Our planet will become absolutely defenseless against the dead cold and harsh radiation of space. Earth - a cozy house of mankind in space - will set off to drift in space, moving towards Orion or maybe towards Cassiopeia.
Obviously, if the Sun disappears, there will come a finite time for the life of the Earth as we know it today. Agree, it's very cool that the Sun is next to us, and will not disappear anywhere.