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Everybody Loves Science!
Carl-E:
Oh, I remember that one now...
Anyhoo, the universe is expanding, and this years winners for the nobel in physics showed it's increasing at an increasing rate... which means that the stars will be moving farther apart faster and faster, to the point where they'll all be too far away for detectable radiation to reach us...
...which means the night sky will be completely dark. If the starts made you feel small, imagine what the void will do!
Akima:
What will happen to the Moon? And the planets that are visible with the naked eye? :-D
ChaoSera:
That depends. If our sun's gravitational force is strong enough to keep the solar system together we would still be able to see them, even if the rest of the galaxy has drifted too far apart.
However, if the solar system also gets pulled apart, then we won't see anything in the sky, not even the moon. Even if it's still in orbit around earth and was not pulled away too, there won't be any light from our sun to be reflected off it. As far as i know the moon itself does not give off any detectable radiation, so without any background radiation we wouldn't even be able to detect it that way. :-D
LTK:
The sun will have died a hundred times over before we get to that point.
ChaoSera:
Obviously, yes. But assuming it doesn't makes for more interesting scenarios.
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