We use water to put fires out because they can‘t burn through the coating of water over their fuel. But there’s no air in space, and water can‘t stop the thermonuclear reactions that cause the sun to burn. Our huge glass of water would actually make the sun get hotter and burn 6 times brighter.
Then, can you put the sun out with water?
You can not put out the Sun with water. Indeed, water would fuel the nuclear fusion processes that make the Sun “burn”. It would not only not be extinguished, it would end up getting hotter. At best, you could use a couple hundred billion times as much water as we have on Earth to basically destroy the Sun.
One may also ask, how large would a bucket of water have to be to put out the sun? Sun’s overall density is 1.4 times that of water. So if you have a bucket of water equal to the volume of the Sun, that water will have 1/1.4 = 0.71 times the mass of the sun, or 0.71 solar masses.
Just so, what would happen if you went near the sun?
Well first thing’s first: You would disintegrate. At the temperature of the Sun, most of the molecules that make up our bodies could not even survive, that is why we would not only fry and die, we would really disintegrate (all the molecules breaking apart, leaving only loose atoms).
What would happen if we put water on the Moon?
Liquid water cannot persist at the Moon’s surface, and water vapor is decomposed by sunlight, with hydrogen quickly lost to outer space. However, scientists have conjectured since the 1960s that water ice could survive in cold, permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s poles.
How much water is in the sun?
The probable answer is “no.” The Sun involves a special type of fire that is able to “burn” water, and so it will just get hotter, and six times brighter. Water is 89% oxygen BY MASS. And the Sun’s overall density is 1.4 times that of water.
Is there water on the sun?
Like all stars, the sun contains every known element, including oxygen and hydrogen. In some places the sun’s oxygen and hydrogen even combine to form H2O, or water. So hot, in fact, that nearly all its atoms, including oxygen and hydrogen, float around without attaching to each other to form molecules.
Can you kill the sun?
In fact, since you’ve got the power to magically replace stellar cores, you would only need to replace the Sun’s core with carbon or oxygen to kill it. It actually doesn’t have enough mass to fuse even carbon. As soon as you replaced the Sun’s core, it would shut off fusion.
How much water would kill you?
There is no one set amount of water you need to drink as it’s very individual. I recommend you don’t drink large amounts of plain water in one go. In severe cases, the condition can lead to ‘water intoxication’, which is signified by headaches, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, frequent urination and mental disorientation.
Will the sun extinguish?
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 birth 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.
What is the sun made of?
The Sun is a huge, glowing sphere of hot gas. Most of this gas is hydrogen (about 70%) and helium (about 28%). Carbon, nitrogen and oxygen make up 1.5% and the other 0.5% is made up of small amounts of many other elements such as neon, iron, silicon, magnesium and sulfur.
Is the sun just a big ball of fire?
The Sun is a big ball of fire It may be hot (15 million°C at its core, in fact), but the Sun isn’t just one massive open flame. It actually gives off heat and light through a process called nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms crash into one another creating helium.
How does the sun get oxygen to burn?
The Sun does not “burn”, like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core. Hydrogen really doesn’t burn, it fuses, into helium. So no oxygen is required!