Ah, but at what speed?
Comment on what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 months ago
The speed of love.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Skyscrapers are winking
teft@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Now I’m imagining the type of event that could cause a planet to move at such a significant percent of c that you could disrupt the sun with it. I don’t think we’re gonna get a planet moving that fast. I think we’d be limited to stellar core remnants to get that kick in velocity.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As it is, our entire solar system is orbiting at 514,000mph or about 1/1300th the speed of light relative to the center of the galaxy. And the Milky Way Galaxy is moving at about 1.3 million mph through the universe.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All I can think of is aliens. I can’t think of anything in nature that could get a planet moving that fast.
Now a much more dense object like a mini black hole? That’s a more interesting question.
frezik@midwest.social 3 months ago
Could it go fast enough that it doesn’t have enough time to absorb significant amounts of heat and pops out the other side basically intact?
Deestan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We are going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy maybe 1 billion years before the sun fizzles out. Something there with opposite galactic orbit from us could smack into our sun at over 700 km/s.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Okay so I forgot how big the sun is and had that absentminded mental picture moment of “oh it would make a big bang as something 3/4s the size of the sun would hit it”…
This picture was a very helpful reminder of just how out to lunch that thought was. Don’t trust your absent thoughts, folks 😅
djsaskdja@reddthat.com 3 months ago
The more I learn about the sun, the more I realize those ancient civilizations who worshipped it got it right. Look at that thing it’s fucking huge, scary, and it’s like right there.
netvor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, they were just superstitious, they did not know how huge the sun was.
But we know now so ALL HAIL THE SUN GOD!!!
dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
What’s this picture from lol? Why label the line diameter and not actually have the value?!
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can’t fool me with that label of “diameter”, I know that’s actually a trench with an exhaust port that if successfully fired into will cause a cascading failure