What Would Happen If The Sun Disappeared For One Week?

What would happen if the Sun disappeared for one week? For the first eight minutes, nobody on Earth would know. The sunlight already on its way would keep arriving, the sky would stay blue, and life would carry on completely normally. Then the light would run out, and the sky above every city on the planet would fill with stars in the middle of the afternoon. In this documentary we follow the seven days that would follow, minute by minute. Earth would stop curving through space and fly off in a straight line at 107,000 kilometres per hour. Temperatures would collapse past anything in recorded history. The oceans would begin to freeze from the surface down. Photosynthesis would stop within hours, and the entire food chain would start unravelling from the bottom. But Earth would not die as fast as you think. The planet holds an enormous amount of heat, the atmosphere would keep working, and deep beneath the frozen surface some life would never even notice the Sun was gone. And then, after seven days, the Sun comes back. What that would do to a frozen planet is the part nobody talks about. WHAT YOU'LL SEE IN THIS VIDEO This is a science based thought experiment, built on real physics: orbital mechanics, heat capacity, radiative cooling and atmospheric behaviour. Every number in this video comes from what we actually know about how the solar system holds itself together. If you enjoy space documentaries, Earth science and what if scenarios about the solar system, subscribe to The Last Day. New documentary every week on the moments that could end a world. More what if documentaries on this channel: What Would Happen If the Moon Crashed Into Earth What Would Happen If an Asteroid Hit the Ocean What Earth Will Look Like After We're Gone chapters: 00:00 - Introduction & The 8-Minute Delay 01:47 - The Rules: Light, Heat & Gravity 03:02 - The Last Light & Extinguishing Planets 04:59 - Drifting in Space: Orbital Mechanics 06:37 - How Cold Does It Get? (The Cooling Cur