If the sun blew up right now how long would it take for us to notice?

I dunno.. it's so big maybe if it blew up immediately we wouldn't have time to notice before we're baked to perfection.

It would take about six to eight minutes for us to know. This is how long scientists estimate that it takes light from the Sun to reach Earth. At that point, the entire Earth would enter an ice age.

The whale was a missile blasting from beneath the surface.  2.) a majestic whale leapt skyward before diving back into the sea.    these are both figurative language. this is so because the whale in sentence "1" was not actually a missile, nor was it actually blasting. now, for sentence "2", a whale can not actually "leap".