Comment on what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?

• ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The speed of love.

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  • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Skyscrapers are winking

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨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?

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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