What if Earth Left the Sun's Orbit?

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To learn more about 'What if Earth Left the Sun's Orbit?', visit our website: www.darkspace.co You might not realize, but we owe EVERYTHING on this planet to the Sun, the toasty climate, the photosynthesizing plants and even the vitamin D in our bodies! But what would happen to us if we left the sun altogether? WHAT IF the Earth left the Sun’s orbit and traveled straight into the empty darkness of Interstellar space? For such an event to happen, we would need some kind of external force interfering with the neat orbits of our planets in our solar system. Think of a second star passing close by and catapulting us away, or maybe a rouge planet. There are several possibilities, but let’s not dwell on those and instead assume that the Earth just stops orbiting the Sun and starts moving straight ahead at its orbital velocity. The Earth is uniquely well situated when it comes to distance between us and the Sun, it’s not too hot nor too cold. Astronomers call it the Goldilocks zone or the habitable zone. And on this journey, we will also find out very quickly how small this zone really is. At this moment, the earth is 150 million km away from the Sun, a unit that is called 1 AU. At its current velocity, the earth would travel about 6.5 AU a year, rapidly moving away from our home orbit. This means that we would go past mars in about a month, and past Pluto in about 4.5 years. The chance that we collide with any of the planets is minimal, due to the sheer size of their orbit, but we might get bombarded quite nastily when passing the asteroid belt between the second and third month. Apart from this, the effects of this departure would be noticeable almost immediately, by the time we pass Mars, our toasty planet would have been so far already that the average global temperature would go down by about 15 degrees. One month later, around the same distance from the Sun as Jupiter, and the temperature will fall even further to a wintery 0 degrees. In addition, nearly all plant life will be dead by now, due to either starvation or hypothermia, causing a mass extinction all across the planet and stopping the renewal of our oxygen. Let's find out how the humanity can save itself in the face of this situation. Like this video and subscribe to my channel for more content like this. Music: Epidemic Sound