If the star Betelgeuse replaced the Sun, most planets will be inside the star, even Jupiter. It would outshine the Sun like the Sun outshines the Moon.
if there were no solar system then there would be no life?
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, is so large that if it were placed at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter. However, as a gaseous object, Betelgeuse does not have a distinct volume like a solid object would.
Betelgeuse is not located in the solar system.Astronomers have had a lot of trouble trying to measure the distance to Betelgeuse,and their conclusions have varied over a wide range. The best estimate now for thedistance to Betelgeuse is 640 light years.That's a little over 40 million times as far from us as the Sun is.Betelgeuse is also interesting in another way ... its size. It may be the largest star known.It's estimated that if our Sun were at the center of Betelgeuse, then the orbits of Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, and possibly Jupiter and the asteroid belt, would also be inside that star.
Betelgeuse is much larger than the Sun. It is a red supergiant star, with a radius around 650-900 times larger than the Sun. If placed in our solar system, Betelgeuse would engulf all the inner planets including Jupiter.
If Betelgeuse (beetle juice) exploded then we would experience a supernova. actually Betelgeuse already had it's supernova. It's predicted that earth may see the supernova in around 2012-2013 around that year. Editing Correction: You can't detect a star going supernova before the light has reached us. This answer is biased. Claims of Betelgeuse supernova light reaching us 2012 is false. In fact it might not even go supernova the next 100'000 years. It might also be that Betelgeuse has a unsymmetrical shape and therefor is seen as shrinking. Either way, it would light up the sky as much as the full moon for a few weeks and then be visible to the naked eye fading for about a year. Also Betelgeuse is too far away from our solar system (640 Ly) to do any harm.
if there were no solar system then there would be no life?
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star, is so large that if it were placed at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter. However, as a gaseous object, Betelgeuse does not have a distinct volume like a solid object would.
Betelgeuse is not located in the solar system.Astronomers have had a lot of trouble trying to measure the distance to Betelgeuse,and their conclusions have varied over a wide range. The best estimate now for thedistance to Betelgeuse is 640 light years.That's a little over 40 million times as far from us as the Sun is.Betelgeuse is also interesting in another way ... its size. It may be the largest star known.It's estimated that if our Sun were at the center of Betelgeuse, then the orbits of Mercury,Venus, Earth, Mars, and possibly Jupiter and the asteroid belt, would also be inside that star.
They would fall into the Sun.
Betelgeuse is much larger than the Sun. It is a red supergiant star, with a radius around 650-900 times larger than the Sun. If placed in our solar system, Betelgeuse would engulf all the inner planets including Jupiter.
Everything else in the solar system would orbit the earth instead of the sun. And it would take months to fly from London to Australia :)
The results would probably be catastrophic.
If earth was simply wiped out during the collision that created the moon, life obviously would have had nothing to start on in this solar system. Assuming their is no lifes in the moons of our solar system.
Our entire solar system would be 100 times as cold as Antarctica!
I believe it would clash against the rest of the solar system and burn everything else.
the law of gravitiy will reverse
They would fly randomly through space.