why can't the sun go super nova?

Question

do not say because it can't

Answer 1

apparently it will in about 5,000 million years. cant wait!

Answer 2

The sun is not large enough to go super nova. The internal mechanisms that lead to this event require much greater mass than our sun possesses at the moment.
However, if the sun gained sufficient extra material it could become sufficiently massive to go super nova. This could happen if it passed through a cloud of galactic dust, it would draw it to it, and increase its mass.
So it would be possible for the sun to go super nova. How long it would take would depend on the size it became. The more massive it was, the quicker it would go through the process of becoming super nova.

Answer 3

It cannot, it is not big enough to.

In order to Supernova, it would need to be a much bigger size of star, produce a higher volume of Radiation etc.

It will explode as a Nova, but not in the Supernova context. Scientists have not yet agreed on what it will do, but the general belief is it will expand out to become a Red Giant and cover planets 1-4 (Mercury, Venus, Earth & Mars), and then collapse back, and just become a ball a hot rock (a White Dwarf), which cools to become a black dwarf.

Red and Blue Supergiants are the really big ones, Rigel (In the Orion System) is 57000x bigger than our sun. It will likely S.N.

Answer 4

interior the grand scheme of issues, the explosion of a single celebrity has little effect (on the interior sight point we would be vaporized approximately 5 minutes after it got here approximately*). Taken as a collective phenomenon, supernovae are in charge for expelling the heavier aspects created interior the middle of the celebrity out into area (it extremely is how we've been given each and each of the climate of the periodic table from basically hydrogen gas). those aspects can then coalesce into planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc. *Addendum: Our sunlight is at the instant too small to undergo a supernova. The Earth will maximum probable be destroyed whilst the sunlight expands right into a purple super in approximately 8 billion years. The sunlight will ultimately quiet down as a white dwarf. the main probable concern for our sunlight ever going supernova could be as quickly because it extremely is a white dwarf for it to snag yet another celebrity (could weigh a minimum of 0.4 situations the mass of our sunlight) and eat it thereby elevating its mass sufficient for a supernova. despite the fact that, by utilising this time, the Earth, and in all threat maximum planets interior the photograph voltaic device, could have been ate up by utilising the sunlight.

Answer 5

Our star is too small to SuperNova.


When a star burns its fuel, and produces heat energy, it causes it to puff up and expand. So a star is much larger when it is hot, then if it were to cool.

When a larger star uses up its Hydrogen fuel ( Hydrogen fuses to Helium), it cant produce enough heat energy to support its larger size, and begins to cool. This allows gravity to take over, and causes it to begin to collapse due to its large mass.
Heavier elements such as Carbon and Oxygen begin to fuse as the core temperature increases. Fusion of heavier elements produce less energy than lighter elements, up to Iron 56, which does not help to produce heat to support the bulk of the star.
This contributes to the collapse of the star from the inside out.

Our Sun, is too small to go Super Nova, but it will eventually run low on Hydrogen, and expand to form a red giant, encompansing the inner plannets. Dont hold your breath though, it will take a couple thousand million years or so.

Elements heavier than oxygen are produced by supernova.
The solar system is made from remnants of other stars that went super nova producing the oxygen, iron etc that make up you and the earth. Our sun was born from what was left over.

You are made from the dust of stars.

Answer 6

It's not big enough and it's not the right type of star. In 6 billion years the sun will run out of fuel and it will just exand while consuming Venus and Mercury while it turns Earth into a molten land of lava.

The sun can't go supernova because it's WAY to small, stars thousands of times bigger then the sun go supernova.

Answer 7

One day the Sun will go super nova. Lucky for us we won't be around when it does.

Answer 8

It will go nova but lacks the mass to go super nova.

Answer 9

it will eventually. Not for 10 of thousands of millions of years though. I think I heard eventually its gases will change, disappear, or get used up, than BOOM

I think

Answer 10

Probably will in a few billion years or so

Answer 11

Just wait a little longer