What If The Sun Suddenly Disappeared?

The sun lies some 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way, in a spin of our home galaxy known as the Orion Arm. Every 230 million years, the sun - and the solar system it drives - orbits around the center of the Milky Way. Although we can not feel it, the sun is at orbiting at an average speed of 450,000 miles an hour.

The sun was formed more than 4.5 billion years ago when a cloud of dust and gas called a nebula collapsed under its own gravity. In doing so, the cloud has turned and flattened into a disk, our sun forming in its center. The peripheries of the disk were then added to our solar system, including the Earth and the other planets.

The Sun has been responsible for giving energy to our planet over the past 4.5 billion years. This energy has allowed life to flourish throughout the history of the Earth. What would be the short and long term effects on the Earth if the Sun suddenly disappeared?

Well, the sudden disappearance of the Sun would not produce much good.
First, if the sun were gone now, we would not know it until eight-thirty. Since nothing moves faster than light, including gravitational attraction, we orbit the missing star without being aware of our impending death. Suddenly, as the last rays of the sun fell on the side of the daylight, the sun simply disappeared. The eternal night would fall on the planet and the Earth would start traveling in interstellar space at a speed of 18 km/second.

Within 2 seconds, the full moon reflecting the sun's rays on the dark side of the planet will also darken. In the same way, during the day, all the planets of our solar system, once happy, were extinguished when they stopped reflecting the sunlight on Earth.

Temperatures would begin to drop and the planet would begin to freeze. It would take millions of years for the planet to freeze completely, but here, on the earth's crust, temperatures would drop below 0 ° C the first week, falling to -100 degrees at the coldest the first year. The earth will eventually stabilize around -240 degrees for a few million years while geothermal energy will still work. (In another way, you should buy a good coat while you can).

Photosynthesis would stop immediately and any plant would perish quickly. Most species on the planet would survive only a short time before they also perish at the greatest extinction event in the history of our small world. Between extreme temperatures, panic and the collapse of civilization, most of the human population would be destroyed. The few survivors would need to migrate closer to the center of the earth to experience geothermal energy in a matrix-type city. The planet will eventually freeze and the Earth will form a solid, frozen block of rocks navigating in space, but this will not happen for millions of years. Let's hope that by then we will have found a way to leave our once-prosperous world and migrate to a new country.

Again, the chances of the Sun disappearing without a trace are very small, so we probably do not need to worry about it.