RE: Solar wonders (02) --- The sun, our star.
Definitely my best steemstem post this week. Educative to every category of person, catchy and easy to understand.
How about if I told you that the sunlight reaching you today started it's journey some 100,000 years ago from the center of the sun? Would you fathom that?
Definitely, I would. Read about it somewhere and taught in junior secondary.
So, what if I told you that the sun contains between 98% to 99.9% of every matter in the whole solar system? think about that for a moment, there is the possibility that everything you've come to know and hear about, including all of the matter on the moon, asteroids and the other planets probably isn't up to 1% of the total matter in the solar system. Intriguing, isn't it?
Really amazing and suprising , this is a new fact, to me. I'll still, definitely check it out.
6×10¹¹kg is a large mass, of light gas hydrogen, compared to what you say can power a house. This definitely proves that all energy results from solar.
If the sun dies off, how'd it affect the solar system- gravity? Will those bigger stars replace it? Kindly elaborate.
Hi, the sun is the only star in our solar system. This means there are tons of other stars out there in the universe and some are way bigger than our sun.
This image below shows some of the other well-known stars and their relative sizes. the sun is tiny, somewhere there in the middle of the image. Maybe these stars might have their own solar systems too with planets. we've termed every other planet that isn't in our solar system as 'outer planets'
[Image: GiovanniMartin16 CC BY-SA 4.0.]
Since the sun is all we've got, there's no replacement for it if it dies. And dying means a lot of chaos for earth and the planets in the solar system. without the sun's energy-giving rays of light, earth would become dark without daylight and the atmosphere would be as cold as your deep freezer.
If it explodes into a supernova, however, the light would last for a couple of years and we would all be rotisseries on a spit. We'd roast from the immense radiation and heat that would bust our magnetosphere and wear out the ozone to reach us directly. It's game over.
I suggest you do more research on the question though. I found some reasonable articles on quora.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you @pangoli
You're welcome buddy