Everyone has been taught to never look directly at the Sun since they were very little, but whenever theres some astronomical event concerning our lovely star,some people throw caution to the wind. Withthe Mercury transitnext Monday,astronomer and TV presenter Mark Thompson decided to show the extreme consequences of looking at the Sun with no filter.…
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What If The Sun Disappeared?
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Popular science educator Michael from Vsauce returns to the web to discuss gravity and the Sun. As a thought experiment, he asks the interesting hypothetical, “What if the sun disappeared?“ It’s not going to happen, but interestingly enough, if it did, we wouldn’t be aware that anything was wrong for a good eight minutes, as it takes…