What would happen if we launched a nuclear bomb at the Sun?

It's safe to say the nuclear bomb will have no effect at all. But actually it's even harder than that to perturb the sun. The nuclear bomb would be vaporised long before it reached the surface. It could be detonated in space somewhere near the sun.

What would happen if nukes were launched?

The ash cloud it would create would envelop the planet and prevent sunlight from reaching the surface and creating a global winter which would drop temperatures below freezing for decades. All life on Earth would be extinct. Even the International Space Station would be destroyed thanks to the debris.

How hot is a nuclear bomb compared to the sun?

Temperatures of a nuclear explosion reach those in the interior of the sun, about 100,000,000° Celsius, and produce a brilliant fireball. The fireball shortly after detonation.

How many nuclear bombs is the sun equivalent to?

In just 100 to 1,000 seconds, the disturbance can release an energy of 10²⁴ Joule. A single flare then creates an explosion equivalent to 2.5 million nuclear bombs on Earth, each with a destructive force of 100 Megatons of trinitrotoluene, or TNT.

Are there nuclear explosions on the sun?

The most powerful nuclear detonations on Earth and the interior of the Sun actually have a lot in common. They both get the overwhelming majority of their energy from nuclear fusion: compressing light nuclei into heavier ones.

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Why doesn't the sun explode now?

Why doesn't the Sun fuse all its hydrogen at once and explode like an H-bomb? Fortunately for life on our planet, the Sun gradually releases its nuclear energy over billions of years. The Sun is powered by the energy released when the nuclei of its hydrogen atoms slam together so hard they fuse together.

Why does the sun never burn out?

The sun does not run out of oxygen for the simple fact that it does not use oxygen to burn. The burning of the sun is not chemical combustion. It is nuclear fusion.

How hot is the inside of the sun?

The continual nuclear fusion, causes energy to build up and the sun's core reaches temperatures of about 27 million degrees F (15 million degrees C). The energy then radiates outward to the sun's surface, atmosphere and beyond.

What is the strongest nuke?

Tsar Bomba

On Oct. 30, 1961, the Soviet Union dropped the most powerful nuclear weapon ever exploded on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, north of the arctic circle.

How hot was the bomb on Hiroshima?

About 0.2 seconds after the detonation over Hiroshima, the fireball created reached a surface temperature of 7,700 degrees Celsius. From 0.2 to 3 seconds after detonation, the intense heat emitted from the fireball exerted powerful effects on the ground.

Is Hiroshima still radioactive?

Is there still radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The radiation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki today is on a par with the extremely low levels of background radiation (natural radioactivity) present anywhere on Earth. It has no effect on human bodies.

Which thing is hotter than sun?

And the answer: lightning. According to NASA, lightning is four times hotter than the surface of the sun. The air around a stroke of lightning can peak at 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, while the surface of the sun is around 11,000 degrees.

Is a supernova hotter than the sun?

Supernovae are stars that contract so much that they eventually explode. They may reach temperatures of 3 billion degrees Celsius (that's 300 times hotter than the sun) right before they explode (Dickin, 2005).

How many nukes would it take to destroy the Earth?

This is why another study had been conducted in 2018 testing a similar scenario that also concluded that it would take 100 nuclear bombs to end this world. What is scarier is that within this world there are 13,080 ready-to-use nuclear warheads and yet it takes such a small amount.

How many nukes would it take to destroy the US?

The absolute doomsday scenario is a “nuclear winter.” For that to happen, the US and Russia would have to use about 2,000 nukes each and destroy major cities and targets, Toon told me.

Can a nuclear bomb destroy a whole country?

Depending on its impact radius, even a Tsar bomb cannot destroy a whole country. Only a small country such as Vatican City or Monaco with land areas of 44 ha and 202 ha respectively can be completely destroyed using a nuclear weapon.

How many nukes are missing in the world?

To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.

How cold is space?

According to data from the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, the temperature of space is 2.725K (2.725 degrees above absolute zero).

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.

How hot is the moon?

The moon's temperature can reach a boiling 250° Fahrenheit (120° Celsius or 400 Kelvin) during lunar daytime at the moon's equator, according to NASA (opens in new tab).

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.

What will happen 5 billion years from now?

But in about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen. Our star is currently in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the formation of our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. Once all the hydrogen gets used up, the sun will grow out of this stable phase.

Will our sun go supernova?

The Sun as a red giant will then... go supernova? Actually, no—it doesn't have enough mass to explode. Instead, it will lose its outer layers and condense into a white dwarf star about the same size as our planet is now.