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Is it possible to extinguish the sun?
So if you have a volume of water the VOLUME of the Sun, it will have 1/1.4 = 0.71 times the mass of the Sun, and this mass will be . 71*. 89 = 63\% of a solar mass of oxygen and 8\% of a solar mass of hydrogen.
How will the sun die?
When the sun increases in size it will become a “red giant.” After this, it will lose many of its outer layers and eventually shrink to become a “white dwarf.” White dwarf stars are still very hot, but not nearly as hot as the sun is now.
How long until the earth ends?
about 7.5 billion years
By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct. The most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet’s current orbit.
Can the Sun rotate?
The Sun rotates on its axis once in about 27 days. Since the Sun is a ball of gas/plasma, it does not have to rotate rigidly like the solid planets and moons do. In fact, the Sun’s equatorial regions rotate faster (taking only about 24 days) than the polar regions (which rotate once in more than 30 days).
What would it take to extinguish the Sun?
To extinguish the sun you need a material that has high nuclear stability and thus will not engage in nuclear fusion. This material, in sufficient quantities, could absorb the heat of the sun, disperse the reacting materials in the sun and thus extinguish it.
What would happen if you put water on the Sun?
I’m going to sum up. The Sun isn’t on fire. There’s no amount of water you could add that would quench it, you’d just make it explode, but if you used firehoses that could spray water at nearly the speed of light, you could probably shut the thing off and eventually freeze us all, which is what I think you were hoping for in the first place.
What would happen if we fed the Sun more oxygen?
As of right now, only 0.8\% of the Sun’s fusion reactions proceed along this path. So if you fed the Sun more oxygen as part of the water, it would allow it to perform more of these fusion reactions too.
What would happen if we gave the Sun H20?
Let’s say another Sun’s worth of H20. Conveniently, Hydrogen is what the Sun uses for fuel, so if you give the Sun more hydrogen, it should just get larger and hotter. Oxygen is one of the byproducts of fusion. Right now, our Sun is turning hydrogen into helium using the proton-proton fusion reaction.