How close would you have to get to the sun to burn up

Also, if you didn't burn up if you got too close to the sun, if you jumped from 1,000 feet above the sun, how fast would you fall to the Sun.

Well, the distance required until you burn up requires specification on what exactly is doing the burning. If you're talking about a person, I would say you probably couldn't get much closer than Earth's orbit if you're just floating around in free space. Think about it. You go to the beach on a summer's day and spend all day outside. At the end of the day, your skin is burnt red. The sun managed to burn you from 93 million miles away after it managed to heat through 63 miles of air. That is a pretty darn hot fire. If you were just floating around in space (and weren't near earth so as to have it's magnetic and atmospheric protection) you would easily burn into a crisp.

As for how fast you would fall into the sun, my calculations show that at a height of 1000 feet, you would fall at a rate of about 272 meters per second, which also equates to approximately 600 miles per hour. You would slam into the sun in 1.12 seconds at a maximum speed of 407 m/s or about 911 mph.

Well, the temperature on Mercury when facing the Sun is about 800.33 Fahrenheit. that would kill you. Mercury is about 28.5 million miles or 0.31 AU away.


You burn up on Earth because of the Earths atmosphere, but special suits can take you to Mercury I'm sure.

you could burn up orbiting the earth if the sun was in front of you