What if Earth landed on the Sun?

If you could land here, all that extra weight would crush your bones and pulverize your internal organs. But if you take a look around, there's nothing here for you to actually land on, because the sun doesn't have any solid surface to speak of. It's just a giant ball of hydrogen and helium gas.
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Can we land on the surface of the sun?

You can't stand on the surface of the Sun even if you could protect yourself. The Sun is a huge ball of heated gas with no solid surface. The Sun's surface is always moving. Sometimes storms bigger than the size of Earth can send gas and energy flowing into space.
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Can we save Earth from the Sun?

It's the type of global warming that no human can avert: the gradual warming that the Sun experiences by burning its core fuel over its lifetime. But there may be a way to keep the Earth inhabited if we plan a very long-term solution: migrating the entire Earth.
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Can the Sun melt a person?

Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material.
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Will Humans ever go to the Sun?

The answer lies in the same fact that keeps Earth from plunging into the Sun: Our planet is traveling very fast — about 67,000 miles per hour — almost entirely sideways relative to the Sun. The only way to get to the Sun is to cancel that sideways motion.
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Did anyone went to sun?

No. Outside mythology, no human has ever attempted to travel to the Sun. The main reason is fairly obvious—it's too hot. Even in a well-protected spacecraft, you could only get within about 2 million kilometres (1,300,000 mi) before burning up.
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What happens if you touch a star?

Small, old stars can be at room temperature ex: WISE 1828+2650, so you could touch the surface without getting burned. Any star you can see in the sky with the naked eye, however, would be hot enough to destroy your body instantaneously if you came anywhere near them.
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What happens if you touch the moon?

Based on measurements of the lunar soil and NASA guidelines on skin contact with hot objects, you would probably be able to press a bare hand against the hottest lunar soil without feeling uncomfortably warm. But if your hand hit a rock, you might find yourself yanking it back in pain.
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Who touched the Sun?

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun. The Parker Probe entered the Sun's upper atmosphere known as the corona where the temperature intensity is up to 2 million-degree Fahrenheit. This is the first time that a spacecraft has reached this close to the Sun.
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Is it possible to touch sun?

It's official: Humans have used a spacecraft to "touch the sun" and revealed some unusual insights about our star. The Parker Solar Probe successfully flew through the sun's corona, or upper atmosphere, to sample particles and our star's magnetic fields. This NASA goal was 60 years in the making.
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How much longer will Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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What just touched the sun?

Scientists announced yesterday that NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun this past April when it reached the sun's upper atmosphere, known as the corona, Leah Crane reports for New Scientist.
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How cold is space?

The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite has refined temperature measurements taken way back in 1964. According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).
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Who went to sun first?

NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the first-ever mission to "touch" the Sun. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, travels directly through the Sun's atmosphere --ultimately to a distance of bout 4 million miles from the surface. Parker Solar Probe launched aboard a Delta IV-Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Aug.
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How cold is the moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
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Will humans go extinct in 2100?

Metaculus users currently estimate a 3% probability of humanity going extinct before 2100.
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Will humans go extinct soon?

Although the population is still increasing, the rate of increase has halved since 1968. Current population predictions vary. But the general consensus is that it'll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now.
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Did NASA land on the sun?

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun.
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How close has NASA been to the sun?

The spacecraft got close to 5 million miles from the sun's surface on Feb. 25. Telescopes on Earth and in space had the sun safely in their sights when NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its 11th daring close flyby of the star on Feb. 25, all to understand more about the sun's behavior.
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Can a rocket go to the sun?

A NASA spacecraft has flown into the sun's atmosphere for the first time in history. In this 2018 handout provided by NASA, the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket prepares to launch with the Parker Solar Probe onboard. Three years after its launch, the Parker Solar Probe has finally "touched" the sun.
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What is inside the sun?

The Sun is a huge ball of hydrogen and helium held together by its own gravity. The Sun has several regions. The interior regions include the core, the radiative zone, and the convection zone.
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Who owns NASA?

That's because NASA isn't a private or publicly-owned company. Instead, it's an official agency of the U.S. government. That means it's technically owned by the United States and receives government funding just like the Department of Justice, Department of Education, National Park Service, etc.
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