{"id":401274,"date":"2025-09-06T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T00:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:11:09","slug":"what-would-happen-if-the-sun-vanished-heres-how-long-earth-could-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401274\/","title":{"rendered":"What would happen if the sun vanished? Here\u2019s how long Earth could survive&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Earth drifted through the galaxy, it might, over millions of years, pass near another star system. If conditions aligned, it could even be captured by another star\u2019s gravity. However, the odds are vanishingly small, and the timescales stretch far beyond human history. For all practical purposes, Earth would become a frozen rogue planet, untethered and alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Earth drifted through the galaxy, it might, over millions of years, pass near another star system. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138418,138424,138415,138430,138408,138422,138421,138406,138423,138403,138400,138417,138420,138416,138405,138411,138404,138401,138414,138413,138428,70,138426,138425,138407,138402,138419,138410,138398,138412,16,15,122500,138409,138399,138429,138427],"class_list":{"0":"post-401274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-astronomy-facts","9":"tag-astrophysics-facts","10":"tag-atmosphere-collapse","11":"tag-can-sun-die","12":"tag-cosmic-darkness","13":"tag-cosmic-survival","14":"tag-dependence-on-sun","15":"tag-earth-freezing-without-sun","16":"tag-earth-orbit-sun","17":"tag-earth-survival-without-sun","18":"tag-earth-without-sun","19":"tag-end-of-solar-system","20":"tag-extreme-space-scenarios","21":"tag-frozen-planet-earth","22":"tag-gravity-sun-earth","23":"tag-habitable-earth","24":"tag-life-without-sunlight","25":"tag-no-sunlight","26":"tag-photosynthesis-stop","27":"tag-plants-without-sunlight","28":"tag-role-of-sun","29":"tag-science","30":"tag-science-news-earth-sun","31":"tag-shocking-space-facts","32":"tag-solar-energy-loss","33":"tag-solar-system-collapse","34":"tag-space-science-explained","35":"tag-sun-death-effects","36":"tag-sun-disappearance","37":"tag-temperature-without-sun","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-universe-mysteries","41":"tag-what-if-scenarios-space","42":"tag-what-if-sun-vanished","43":"tag-what-is-sun-dies","44":"tag-why-is-sun-important-for-earth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}