Can the sun explode?
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say: Yes.
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Adullah M say: One day will come.
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Meteors Thru The Clouds say: One day the outer gas shell may be blown off and then the star will begin a cooling process.
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Bill-M say: NO - It is not big enough.
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Roger K say: The sun IS exploding - all the time.
If you mean, can it end as a super nova, the answer is no. It is too small.
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tham153 say: No, there is a minimum mass for a star to nova, called the Chandrasekhar Limit for the Nobel Prize winning University of Michigan astronomer who worked it out around 1950. That mass is about 1.6 solar masses, which exceeds the total mass of the solar system
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Tom S say: It won't "go supernova" if that is what you mean. But, in a sense it is like a hydrogen bomb which has been going off for the last five billion years.
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G. Whilikers say: Yes, but it's going to take a big-*** blasting cap.
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Mark say: Our sun won't explode or turn into a black hole. It's not massive enough. And luckily there are no supermassive stars "near" us. A supernova can be deadly even 12 light-years away, not by the blast itself, but because it relases so much radiation that a nearby habitable planet would lose its ozone layer.
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Anon say: I wish the sun would explode and knock stupid right off this spherical concentration camp people call Earth.
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poldi2 say: No, the sun cannot explode. It doesn't have enough mass.
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say: Yes.
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Nikki say: according to the news, the sun is expanding, and will red-giant. this will occur long before the galaxy andromeda is scheduled to collide in 4.5-billions years with the milky way.
https://mashable.com/article/andromeda-m...
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Daniel say: In millions and billions of years
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jonniebaby say: Heck yeah.
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CarolOklaNola say: In a sense the Sun IS exploding all the tine. Technically yes, PART of the Sun WILL explode in a helium flash, BUT the Sun will NOT go supernova. Low mass stars like the Sun do NOT go super nova
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Lyar say: Our sun doesn't have enough mass to explode. Instead, in quite a few billions of years, it will turn red and swell to become large enough to consume Mercury, Venus, and the Earth before collapsing in on its self and becoming a white dwarf.
But no worries, because any other sun within like 30 million light years of us going supernova and exploding could potentially kill us all. So we have that to worry about.
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Taylor say: It can...and it will!
*disclaimer it is actually very unlikely that the sun would explode. It would need to absorb significantly more mass to do so.
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