Expanding a little on the last part, Earth’s orbital velocity is about 29.8 km/s so that’s the speed at which we would suddenly be leaving the former location of the solar system in a direction that depends on what time of year it happened. Regardless of direction though, the escape velocity of the Milky Way around where we are is about 544 km/s so there’s no way we’d be leaving the galaxy. On the other hand the plane of the galaxy is only about 6 degrees off from the galactic center at the moment, so if this happened at the right time of year (don’t know when that is) we could launch somewhat towards the core. We would not however get very close to it because the sun’s own orbital velocity is about 230 km/s so we’d still be in close to the same galactic orbit overall, just potentially a bit more eccentric.
So… Solar system you get, but if I refer to it as a “system” now you get confused? I was struggling with a term that wasn’t just “all of the planets that used to be part of the solar system but since the sun is gone there is no longer a system”
A bit - probably weeks to months. For the second question - 8 minutes for the Earth, since gravity propagates at the speed of light
Expanding a little on the last part, Earth’s orbital velocity is about 29.8 km/s so that’s the speed at which we would suddenly be leaving the former location of the solar system in a direction that depends on what time of year it happened. Regardless of direction though, the escape velocity of the Milky Way around where we are is about 544 km/s so there’s no way we’d be leaving the galaxy. On the other hand the plane of the galaxy is only about 6 degrees off from the galactic center at the moment, so if this happened at the right time of year (don’t know when that is) we could launch somewhat towards the core. We would not however get very close to it because the sun’s own orbital velocity is about 230 km/s so we’d still be in close to the same galactic orbit overall, just potentially a bit more eccentric.
Do you think Jupiter would take over as our center of the solar system? Hopefully it doesn’t sling us into deep space or another planet
It wouldn’t sling us into deep space because we are in deep space and will continue to be in deep space.
I meant like away from the rest of our planets. Space= above earth. Deep space= beyond solar system. No one considers earth space
Other planets would just fly off depending on where they were in their orbit relative to us.
But saying we’re flying off to deep space makes no sense because the solar system is the area around the sun. No sun = no distinction.
Dude… Are you trying to be overly pedantic? I am talking about our system as a whole sans sun
I’m trying to explain how that concept makes zero sense.
Well, I’m not any more, doubt you’ll get it at this point, but that was the gist of my previous replies.
So… Solar system you get, but if I refer to it as a “system” now you get confused? I was struggling with a term that wasn’t just “all of the planets that used to be part of the solar system but since the sun is gone there is no longer a system”