What if Jupiter hit sun?

If Jupiter were mixed throughout the sun, the temperature of the sun would decrease slightly, and perhaps it would take a few hundred years for the sun's temperature to return to its previous level, and maybe we would get a few basis points less solar radiation, but it wouldn't go out. Highly active question.
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What will happen if Jupiter hit Sun?

As Jupiter gets closer to the Sun, its surface temperature will increase and it will start evaporating. On hitting the sun's surface, it will quickly explode and release all of its gases. The Sun will consume all its gases but the Sun will continue to shine. It is just like having a piss.
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Can the Sun destroy Jupiter?

Jupiter will continue to orbit the Sun as it evolves into a red giant. Although the solar wind will be much much more powerful, it won't have a significant effect on the overall mass of Jupiter. When the Sun loses its outer layers it will, in the last million years or so of its life, lose about half its mass.
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Will Jupiter survive the Sun?

Themiya Nanayakkara, an astronomer at the Swinburne University of Technology who was not involved in the research, said the discovery suggested outer gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn could survive the death of the sun.
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Can Sun swallow Jupiter?

But Jupiter's pull would still be no match for the Sun's gravitational force. So Jupiter would have to come for Earth just like it swallowed all the other planets in our Solar System. Jupiter doesn't have a hard surface like the rocky planets. You could say Jupiter is a big, dense ball of gas.
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What if the Sun was red?

If sunlight was red then the red sun would be long living allowing evolution to progress longer on that planet. That sun would have been born before our own sun as well, so if compared to the current Earth Date then an Earth-like planet could easily have life that's been around way longer and maybe more advanced.
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What if the moon hit the Sun?

We would lose all tides on the Earth, as these are governed by the gravitational force of the Moon. The Sun would also not be too happy I would imagine, but it should not have too dramatic an effect on something as big as that.
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What if the Sun died?

Once all the helium disappears, the forces of gravity will take over, and the sun will shrink into a white dwarf. All the outer material will dissipate, leaving behind a planetary nebula. "When a star dies, it ejects a mass of gas and dust — known as its envelope — into space.
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Will the Sun eat Mars?

The bloated, dying star throws out material from its outer layers in intense episodic bursts. In our own solar system, the Sun will puff up so much that it will melt, evaporate and eat up some of the inner rocky planets. "I am confident that the Sun will swallow Mercury and Venus, and not Mars.
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Will the Sun destroy Mars?

The Sun is predicted to expand so much it would engulf Mars and Earth as if puffs up into a red giant. It's thought humans would have died out way before then unless we can find away to leave planet Earth and exist somewhere else. The 2018 study suggests, at this rate, humans only have around one billion years left.
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Can Earth exist without Jupiter?

Without Jupiter, humans might not exist. A new study, however, suggests that without Jupiter, Earth itself might not exist either. Where this and the other rocky planets now orbit there may have first been a previous generation of worlds destined to be bigger, gas-shrouded, utterly uninhabitable orbs.
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Can Earth survive without Jupiter?

Without Jupiter, the Earth would be pummeled by impacts from asteroids and comets, rendering our planet utterly uninhabitable.
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Does Earth need Jupiter?

In our own solar system, Jupiter, with its enormous gravitational field, plays an important protective role. By deflecting comets and asteroids that might otherwise hit Earth, Jupiter has helped to create a more stable environment for life to evolve here.
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What if Neptune hit the Sun?

So if Neptune were thrust so much closer to the Sun, it would warm up very quickly indeed. Over time, the Sun would affect Neptune's atmosphere, as it does Mercury's. Neptune's atmosphere is composed of hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of methane.
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What if Saturn crashed into Earth?

However, if Saturn were to come closer to Earth (after chucking the Moon out of orbit), imagine the scale of ocean tides then. There would be huge… no, apocalyptic tidal waves that would rage all over the planet and destroy everything in their path.
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How long will the 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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Is Jupiter dying?

Jupiter's giant storm, the Great Red Spot, may not be dying any time soon. It seems to have been unravelling for decades, but this is probably down to the movement and shredding of clouds rather than a sign that the storm is abating.
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Will the Sun destroy Earth?

By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct. Finally, 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.
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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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Can we live on sun?

Firstly, no humans could ever inhabit the Sun. It is a star. Scalding temperatures, nuclear processes, and unexpected lethal bursts make the Sun a deadly world. Yet, it would be unjust to not cover our cosmic mother in our guide to life beyond Earth.
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What if Earth had rings?

At the equator, the rings would appear to divide the sun, casting a dramatic shadow over half the world. Likewise, the rings themselves would cast shadows on Earth.
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What if Earth had no moon?

It is the pull of the Moon's gravity on the Earth that holds our planet in place. Without the Moon stabilising our tilt, it is possible that the Earth's tilt could vary wildly. It would move from no tilt (which means no seasons) to a large tilt (which means extreme weather and even ice ages).
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What if the Sun exploded?

For Earth to be completely safe from a supernova, we'd need to be at least 50 to 100 light-years away! But the good news is that, if the Sun were to explode tomorrow, the resulting shockwave wouldn't be strong enough to destroy the whole Earth. Only the side facing the Sun would boil away instantly.
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