How bright is a day on Pluto?

If you were to stand on the surface of Pluto at noon, the Sun would be 1/900 the brightness it is here on Earth, or about 300 times as bright as our full moon. There is a moment each day near sunset here on Earth when the light is the same brightness as midday on Pluto.

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What if the Sun exploded?

The good news is that if the Sun were to explode ? and it will eventually happen ? it wouldn't happen overnight. During this process, it will lose its outer layers to the cosmos, leading to the creation of other stars and planets in the same way that the violent burst of the Big Bang created Earth. Which is the best planet to live on? Mars is the best planet because Mars and Earth have more in common than any other worlds in the solar system. It cowers next to humongous Jupiter, but unlike that gas giant, its hard surface beckons visitors.

Can we live on Jupiter?

Jupiter's environment is probably not conducive to life as we know it. The temperatures, pressures, and materials that characterize this planet are most likely too extreme and volatile for organisms to adapt to. Can you live on Mars? Human survival on Mars would require living in artificial Mars habitats with complex life-support systems. One key aspect of this would be water processing systems. Being made mainly of water, a human being would die in a matter of days without it.

Which planet has the shortest day?

Jupiter Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, rotating on average once in just under 10 hours. That is very fast, especially considering how large Jupiter is. This means that Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets in the Solar System. Which is farthest planet? The most distant planet in the Solar System is Neptune, which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 4.498 billion km (2.794 billion miles). Neptune was discovered by the German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle on .