Question

What happens if a nuclear bomb is thrown towards the sun and it detonates. What could be it's effect on the earth?

Answer 1

A typical solar flare releases approximately 100 Exajoules (100,000,000,000,000,000,000 J) That is still over 476 times as much energy as the Nuclear Bombs. Essentially our largest nuke is a baby burp compared to anything the sun has going on.

One does not just shoot something into the sun. It's not a point and fire type situation. It is actually easier to leave the solar system than to hit the sun.

Quite a lot, if you did it just right. Adding a lot of thermal energy to the sun is pretty useless, definitely — but if we do controlled work on the sun using a nuke, we can effect significant changes and turn it into a terrifying weapon.

As other answers pointed out, if we just launched a nuke at the surface of the sun and blew it up there, it “would be barely a drop in the oceon.The energy we can add is miniscule. But the sun has a large amount of energy of its own to provide, and we can cause the sun to release its own energy, then we can make something very large happen