What If the Sun Disappeared Tomorrow?

The Sun is like a giant flashlight. If it disappeared, it would be dark here on Earth, but we wouldn’t feel the change right away. Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach us, so we’d still have light for a little while longer. But after that, it would get really cold and dark, like being in space.

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  1. It’s like turning off a lamp in a dark room, you don’t notice it immediately.
  2. You wake up to a sky full of stars but no sun. It gets cold soon after.
  3. Your plants start to wither because they can't get light anymore.

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