It's a thought that may have crossed your mind at some point: what would be the practicalities of firing your enemies into the Sun? Fortunately, an associate professor of astronomy, who hopefully doesn't have access to a rocket ship, has the answers. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Apart from the obvious moral difficulties, physics is not working in your favor. Intuitively it may seem easy – just point a rocket at it and shoot. The Sun contains around 99.8 percent of the Solar System's mass, so you might think it would be quite easy to just let our star's gravity do the work. While that is part of the answer, it may be a little more complicated than you think.

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting

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